How to format your references using the Space Weather citation style

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

Ovid’ko, I. A. (2002). Materials science. Deformation of nanostructures. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5564), 2386.

A journal article with 2 authors

Velicogna, I., & Wahr, J. (2006). Acceleration of Greenland ice mass loss in spring 2004. Nature, 443(7109), 329–331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rubin, K. H., Fletcher, C. H., 3rd, & Sherman, C. (2000). Fossiliferous Lana’i deposits formed by multiple events rather than a single giant tsunami. Nature, 408(6813), 675–681.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tian, B., Zheng, X., Kempa, T. J., Fang, Y., Yu, N., Yu, G., et al. (2007). Coaxial silicon nanowires as solar cells and nanoelectronic power sources. Nature, 449(7164), 885–889.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes, A. (2013). Extractive Metallurgy 2. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Liu, C., Chang, J., & Yang, A. (Eds.). (2011). Information Computing and Applications: Second International Conference, ICICA 2011, Qinhuangdao, China, October 28-31, 2011. Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 243). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Salviano, C. F., Alves, A. M., Stefanuto, G. N., Maintinguer, S. T., Mattos, C. V., & Zeitoum, C. (2014). CERTICS - An ISO/IEC 15504 Conformance Model for Software Technological Development and Innovation. In A. Mitasiunas, T. Rout, R. V. O’Connor, & A. Dorling (Eds.), Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 14th International Conference, SPICE 2014, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 4-6, 2014, Proceedings (pp. 48–59). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Weather.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 9). How Space Alters Whiskey. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-alters-whiskys-aroma/

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. (1973). Alleged Violations of the Kentucky State Plan for Vocational Education and Federal Regulations on Vocational Education by the Kentucky Department of Education (No. B-164031(1)). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Colchero Dorado, R. (2008). Recovering memory in Jordi Soler’s “Los rojos de ultramar” (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Novick, S. M. (2015, June 28). Farm to Blanket. New York Times, p. LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ovid’ko, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Ovid’ko, 2002; Velicogna & Wahr, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Velicogna & Wahr, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Tian et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Space Weather
Abbreviation	Space Weather
ISSN (print)	1539-4956
ISSN (online)	1542-7390
Scope	Atmospheric Science