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]

D.W. Lea, Paleoclimate. The glacial tropical Pacific--not just a west side story, Science. 297 (2002) 202–203.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Z.B. Yan, J.-M. Liu, Coexistence of high performance resistance and capacitance memory based on multilayered metal-oxide structures, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2482.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Loewe, V. Textor, S. Scherer, High deleterious genomic mutation rate in stationary phase of Escherichia coli, Science. 302 (2003) 1558–1560.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Gomendio, A.F. Malo, A.J. Soler, M.R. Fernández-Santos, M.C. Esteso, A.J. García, E.R.S. Roldan, J. Garde, Male fertility and sex ratio at birth in red deer, Science. 314 (2006) 1445–1447.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.S. da Silva, R. Simões, H. Gervásio, Design of Steel Structures, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

H.J. van D. Herik, P. Spronck, eds., Advances in Computer Games: 12th International Conference, ACG 2009, Pamplona Spain, May 11-13, 2009. Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Ammari, S. Nicaise, Asymptotic Behaviour of Concrete Dissipative Systems, in: S. Nicaise (Ed.), Stabilization of Elastic Systems by Collocated Feedback, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 73–146.

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]

E. Andrew, How World War II Spurred Vaccine Innovation, IFLScience. (2015).

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, Federal Transit Administration: Progress Made in Implementing Changes to the Job Access Program, but Evaluation and Oversight Processes Need Improvement, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Kirk, Early Maladaptive Attachment Styles and Psychological Aggression in Romantic Relationships: A Content Analysis, 2006-2016, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

L. Rabbitt, Neither Teacher Nor Nurse, New York Times. (2013) BU9.

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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