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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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.M. Crow, HPV: The global burden, Nature 488 (2012) S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Belgrano, C.W. Fowler, Evolution. How fisheries affect evolution, Science 342 (2013) 1176–1177.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.D. Burke, E.M. Berger, S.L. Schreiber, Generating diverse skeletons of small molecules combinatorially, Science 302 (2003) 613–618.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.S. Sugano, T. Shimada, Y. Imai, K. Okawa, A. Tamai, M. Mori, I. Hara-Nishimura, Stomagen positively regulates stomatal density in Arabidopsis, Nature 463 (2010) 241–244.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-P. Deschamps, G.J.A. Bioul, G.D. Sutter, Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

S. Yamamoto, ed., Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge in Applications and Services: 16th International Conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part II, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Boyaci, B. Guldur, The Revisions for the Gusset Plate Load Rating Approach: A Comparative Case Study, in: A. Caner, P. Gülkan, K. Mahmoud (Eds.), Developments in International Bridge Engineering: Selected Papers from Istanbul Bridge Conference 2014, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 41–50.

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]

E. Andrew, Amazing Photographs Of Iceland’s Volcanic Eruption from Space, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/view-icelands-volcanic-eruption-space-currently-being-written-ls/ (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, Air Traffic Control: Uncertainties and Challenges Face FAA’s Advanced Automated System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Gemmer, Shape Selection in the non-Euclidean Model of Elasticity, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2012.

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. Greenhouse, Case Reopens Abortion Issue for Justices, New York Times (2005) A21.

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