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

Alon U (2003) Biological networks: the tinkerer as an engineer. Science 301:1866–1867

A journal article with 2 authors

Holowka S, Petitto LA (2002) Left hemisphere cerebral specialization for babies while babbling. Science 297:1515

A journal article with 3 authors

Schwartz JH, Tattersall I, Chi Z (2014) Comment on “A complete skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the evolutionary biology of early Homo.” Science 344:360

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mullighan CG, Phillips LA, Su X, et al (2008) Genomic analysis of the clonal origins of relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Science 322:1377–1380

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigby KA (2013) Aircraft Systems Integration of Air-Launched Weapons. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Devillers J (2009) Ecotoxicology Modeling. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Sivertsgård R, Thorstad EB, Økland F, et al (2007) Effects of salmon lice infection and salmon lice protection on fjord migrating Atlantic salmon and brown trout post-smolts. In: Almeida PR, Quintella BR, Costa MJ, Moore A (eds) Developments in Fish Telemetry: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Fish Telemetry held in Europe. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 35–42

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

Evans K (2016) How AI Will Affect Urban Life In 2030, According To Scientists. 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) Highway Projects: Some Federal and State Practices to Expedite Completion Show Promise. 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

Alimo CJ (2010) From dialogue to action: The development of White racial allies. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Wagner J (2017) Bedeviled by an Elbow, but Blessed With Arms. New York Times D5

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