How to format your references using the REACH - Reviews in Human Space Exploration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for REACH - Reviews in Human Space Exploration. 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

[1]

Heffernan O. The dry facts. Nature 2013;501:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Trent JM, Touchman JW. Cancer. The gene topography of cancer. Science 2007;318:1079–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dillingham MS, Spies M, Kowalczykowski SC. RecBCD enzyme is a bipolar DNA helicase. Nature 2003;423:893–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yamamoto J, Nishiyama I, Inoue M, Yokoyama H. Optical isotropy and iridescence in a smectic “blue phase.” Nature 2005;437:525–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sandén BI. Design of Multithreaded Software. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Krafft M, Mantrala MK, editors. Retailing in the 21st Century: Current and Future Trends. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Toivonen M. Social Innovations—Manifested in New Services and in New System Level Interactions. In: Kijima K, editor. Service Systems Science, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015, p. 83–95.

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 REACH - Reviews in Human Space Exploration.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Dark Matter Map From Hubble’s Frontier Fields. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-matter-map-from-hubbles-frontier-fields/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Status of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kidder EO. Self-administered HPV Testing as a Cervical Cancer Screening Option: Exploring the Perspectives of Hispanic and Arab Women in the United States. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2014.

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

[1]

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: News Analysis; The Center of Attention. New York Times 1992:A1.

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	REACH - Reviews in Human Space Exploration
ISSN (print)	2352-3093
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Medicine (miscellaneous) Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiation Human Factors and Ergonomics