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]

P.H. Patterson, Neuroscience. Maternal effects on schizophrenia risk, Science 318 (2007) 576–577.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Alperin, T. Hoehler, Biogeochemistry. The ongoing mystery of sea-floor methane, Science 329 (2010) 288–289.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Gridi-Papp, A.S. Rand, M.J. Ryan, Animal communication: complex call production in the túngara frog, Nature 441 (2006) 38.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.K. Baek, I.G. Yi, H.J. Park, B.J. Kim, Universal statistics of the knockout tournament, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Prud’homme, Flows and Chemical Reactions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M.J. Schmitt, R. Schaffrath, eds., Microbial Protein Toxins, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Petřík, L. Váša, Finding Optimal Parameter Configuration for a Dynamic Triangle Mesh Compressor, in: F.J. Perales, R.B. Fisher (Eds.), Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 6th International Conference, AMDO 2010, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 7-9, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 31–42.

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 Space Policy.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, A Coal Plant In India Has Found A Way To Turn Almost All Its CO2 Emissions Into Baking Powder, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/coal-plant-in-india-has-found-a-way-to-turn-almost-all-co2-emissions-into-baking-powder/ (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, Efforts To Improve School Lunch Programs--Are They Paying Off?, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Pan, Cybersecurity testing and intrusion detection for cyber-physical power systems, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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]

L. Qiu, Trump Claims Undue Credit On an Arsenal, New York Times (2017) A7.

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