How to format your references using the Space Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Space Policy. 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	Download the output style file
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]

J. Clausen, Man, machine and in between, Nature 457 (2009) 1080–1081.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Nott, M. Hayne, High frequency of “super-cyclones” along the Great Barrier Reef over the past 5,000 years, Nature 413 (2001) 508–512.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Rodríguez-Muñoz, A.F. Ojanguren, T. Tregenza, Comment on “International conservation policy delivers benefits for birds in Europe,” Science 319 (2008) 1042; author reply 1042.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.J. Vörösmarty, V.R. Osuna, D.A. Koehler, P. Klop, J.D. Spengler, J.J. Buonocore, A.D. Cak, Z.D. Tessler, F. Corsi, P.A. Green, R. Sánchez, Scientifically assess impacts of sustainable investments, Science 359 (2018) 523–525.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W.C. Bauldry, Introduction to Real Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

G. Svennerberg, Beginning Google Maps API 3, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.J. Kim, J.C. Shim, H.-S. Kim, K.S. Cho, S.G. Choi, An Active Queue Management for QoS Guarantee of the High Priority Service Class, in: T.-H. Kim, A.C.-C. Chang, M. Li, C. Rong, C.Z. Patrikakis, D. Ślęzak (Eds.), Communication and Networking: International Conference, FGCN 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-15, 2010. Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 37–45.

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 Space Policy.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, New Horizons Phoned Home!, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-phoned-home0/ (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, Settlement of Accounts of Certifying Officer, Lewis Research Center, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Hardison, Achieving Literacy Excellence through Identifying and Utilizing High Yield Strategies, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

L.F. Burghardt, The Legacies They Left, New York Times (2006) 14LI6.

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	Space Policy
Abbreviation	Space Policy
ISSN (print)	0265-9646
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Economics and Econometrics Sociology and Political Science