How to format your references using the Space Science Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Space Science Reviews. 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

B. Romanowicz, Nature 451, 266 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

M. E. V. Johansson and G. C. Hansson, Science 334, 182 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

B. Papp, C. Pál, and L. D. Hurst, Nature 424, 194 (2003).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

J. H. Lee, L. Fang, E. Vlahos, X. Ke, Y. W. Jung, L. F. Kourkoutis, J.-W. Kim, P. J. Ryan, T. Heeg, M. Roeckerath, V. Goian, M. Bernhagen, R. Uecker, P. C. Hammel, K. M. Rabe, S. Kamba, J. Schubert, J. W. Freeland, D. A. Muller, C. J. Fennie, P. Schiffer, V. Gopalan, E. Johnston-Halperin, and D. G. Schlom, Nature 466, 954 (2010).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. G. Zhang and T. Chan, The Chinese Yuan (John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809, 2011).

An edited book

L. Amsaleg, M. E. Houle, and E. Schubert, editors , Similarity Search and Applications: 9th International Conference, SISAP 2016, Tokyo, Japan, October 24-26, 2016, Proceedings (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

J. Goubault-Larrecq, in Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures: 11th International Conference, FOSSACS 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008. Proceedings, edited by R. Amadio (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008), pp. 50–65.

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 Science Reviews.

Blog post

K. Hamilton, IFLScience (2016).

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, Survey of Pricing on NASA Contract (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

B. W. Waldner, Determining Relationships Between Technology Acceptance and Employee Attitudes Toward Automated Workflows in the Oil Industry, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2013.

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

J. Gorman, New York Times A14 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Romanowicz 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Johansson and Hansson 2011; Romanowicz 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Johansson and Hansson 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Space Science Reviews
Abbreviation	Space Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0038-6308
ISSN (online)	1572-9672
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics