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

D. Cyranoski, Nature 408, 624 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

I. H. Campbell and H. S. C. O’Neill, Nature 483, 553 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

D. E. Canfield, A. N. Glazer, and P. G. Falkowski, Science 330, 192 (2010).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

D. M. Shechner, R. A. Grant, S. C. Bagby, Y. Koldobskaya, J. A. Piccirilli, and D. P. Bartel, Science 326, 1271 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

A. Ghosh and S. Berg, Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014).

An edited book

H. Brunst, M. S. Müller, W. E. Nagel, and M. M. Resch, editors , Tools for High Performance Computing 2011: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Parallel Tools for High Performance Computing, September 2011, ZIH, Dresden (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

A chapter in an edited book

A. Takahashi, in Endoscopic Diagnosis of Superficial Gastric Cancer for ESD, edited by T. Oyama (Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2016), pp. 29–37.

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

T. Hale, 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, Relocation of the Western Executive Seminar Center (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

F. Al-Alawadhi, Oral History of Women Educators in Kuwait: A Comparative Model of Care Ethics Between Noddings and Al-Ghazali, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 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

L. Qiu, New York Times A13 (2017).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cyranoski 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell and O’Neill 2012; Cyranoski 2000).

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

Two authors: (Campbell and O’Neill 2012)
Three or more authors: (Shechner et al. 2009)

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