How to format your references using the Planetary Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Planetary Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Connerney J (2013) Solar system: Saturn’s ring rain. Nature 496:178–179

A journal article with 2 authors

Larrick RP, Soll JB (2008) Economics. The MPG illusion. Science 320:1593–1594

A journal article with 3 authors

Mendell JT, ap Rhys CMJ, Dietz HC (2002) Separable roles for rent1/hUpf1 in altered splicing and decay of nonsense transcripts. Science 298:419–422

A journal article with 5 or more authors

White PM, Doetzlhofer A, Lee YS, et al (2006) Mammalian cochlear supporting cells can divide and trans-differentiate into hair cells. Nature 441:984–987

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Woolf G (2011) Tales of the Barbarians. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Bosso N (2013) Mechatronic Modeling of Real-Time Wheel-Rail Contact. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Baghdasaryan G, Mikilyan M (2016) Control and Generation of Resonant Vibrations of the Parametric Type. In: Mikilyan M (ed) Effects of Magnetoelastic Interactions in Conductive Plates and Shells. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 131–162

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Planetary Science.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) This Is What Ancient Greek Statues Used To Look Like In Color. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (2012) Commercial Space Launch Act: Preliminary Information on Issues to Consider for Reauthorization. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bernstine JT (2015) Experiences of Students Transferring from Community and Technical Colleges to a Private Nonprofit University. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Plumer B (2017) Meeting Climate Goals Was Always Hard. Without the U.S., It’s Far Harder. New York Times A8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Planetary Science
Abbreviation	Planet. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2191-2521
Scope