How to format your references using the The Journal of Space Safety Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Space Safety Engineering. 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

[1]

C. Glabe, Biomedicine. Avoiding collateral damage in Alzheimer’s disease treatment, Science 314 (2006) 602–603.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F.V. Ramirez Rozzi, J.M. Bermudez De Castro, Surprisingly rapid growth in Neanderthals, Nature 428 (2004) 936–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Lee, A. Mason, members of the NTA Network, Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption, Science 346 (2014) 229–234.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Xu, Q. Tan, J. Wang, X. Zhao, L. Tan, A gigantic bird-like dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China, Nature 447 (2007) 844–847.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Haginomori, T. Koshiduka, J. Arai, H. Ikeda, Power System Transient Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

K. Sango, J. Yamauchi, eds., Schwann Cell Development and Pathology, Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Hong, L. Ma, Engineering and Development in Modern China: Challenges and Responses, in: S.H. Christensen, C. Mitcham, B. Li, Y. An (Eds.), Engineering, Development and Philosophy: American, Chinese and European Perspectives, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012: pp. 47–67.

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 Journal of Space Safety Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Before-And-After Photos Show How Dramatically Presidents Have Aged While In Office, IFLScience (2017).

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, Digital Television Transition: GAO DTV Broadcaster Survey (GAO-08-528SP, April 2008), an E-supplement to GAO-08-510, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Corral, Latino undocumented students in Los Angeles: A grant proposal project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

S. Haigney, Roman Polanski Is Accused of Rape by a Former Actress, New York Times (2017) C4.

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	The Journal of Space Safety Engineering
ISSN (print)	2468-8967
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