How to format your references using the The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review. 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

Hynes RO (2003) Structural biology. Changing partners. Science 300:755–756

A journal article with 2 authors

Veldhoen M, Withers DR (2010) Immunology. Innate lymphoid cell relations. Science 330:594–595

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee JB, Park C, Seoul National University Investigation Committee (2006) Molecular genetics: verification that Snuppy is a clone. Nature 440:E2-3

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim Y, Strelcov E, Hwang IR, et al (2013) Correlative multimodal probing of ionically-mediated electromechanical phenomena in simple oxides. Sci Rep 3:2924

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garduno Barrera D, Diaz M (2011) Communicating Systems with UML 2. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tālivaldis Ozoliņš J (ed) (2016) Religion and Culture in Dialogue: East and West Perspectives. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Knoepffler N, O’Malley M (2012) Ethical Aspects. In: Rustemeyer T, Elsner P, John S-M, Maibach HI (eds) Kanerva’s Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 27–35

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 The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) HIV Undetectable In Two Patients Following Cancer Treatment. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-undetectable-two-patients-following-cancer-treatment/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1994) Telecommunications Market in Canada. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nambiar VR (2012) A Grounded Theory Study on Business Excellence Models in the United Arab Emirates. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Pilon M (2012) Tae Kwon Do Issue Gets Britain’s Attention. New York Times B14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hynes 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hynes 2003; Veldhoen and Withers 2010).

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

Two authors: (Veldhoen and Withers 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
Abbreviation	Astron. Astrophys. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0935-4956
ISSN (online)	1432-0754
Scope	Space and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics