How to format your references using the TsAGI Science Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for TsAGI Science Journal (TSAGI). 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

Macilwain, C., Congress Wakes up to Climate Change, Nature, vol. 405, no. 6785, p. 385, May 25, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mesgarani, N. and Chang, E. F., Selective Cortical Representation of Attended Speaker in Multi-Talker Speech Perception, Nature, vol. 485, no. 7397, pp. 233–36, May 10, 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, L., Leid, M. and Rothenberg, E. V., An Early T Cell Lineage Commitment Checkpoint Dependent on the Transcription Factor Bcl11b, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 329, no. 5987, pp. 89–93, July 2, 2010.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sancho, D., Joffre, O. P., Keller, A. M., Rogers, N. C., Martínez, D., Hernanz-Falcón, P., Rosewell, I. and Reis e Sousa, C., Identification of a Dendritic Cell Receptor That Couples Sensing of Necrosis to Immunity, Nature, vol. 458, no. 7240, pp. 899–903, April 16, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massotte, P. and Corsi, P., Smart Decisions in Complex Systems, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

Sortino, S. Ed., Light-Responsive Nanostructured Systems for Applications in Nanomedicine, Cham: Springer International Publishing, X, 263 p. 83 illus., 65 illus. in color, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Zulkharnain and Sher, A., Smart Card Based on Hash Function, in Informatics Engineering and Information Science: International Conference, ICIEIS 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 14-16, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV, A. Abd Manaf S. Sahibuddin R. Ahmad S. Mohd Daud and E. El-Qawasmeh, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 41–51, 2011.

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 TsAGI Science Journal.

Blog post

Taub, B., The Brains Of Amputees Remember Their Lost Limbs For Decades, IFLScience, August 31, 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, Working Capital Funds: Three Agency Perspectives, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, AIMD-94-121, May 20, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gindin, M., Identification and Characterization of Putative Secreted Proteins from the Adult-Stage Hookworm, Ancylostoma Caninum, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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

Kelly, S., Op-Art, New York Times, June 21, 2002.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2000; Mesgarani et al., 2012).

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

Two authors: (Mesgarani et al., 2012)
Three or more authors: (Sancho et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	TsAGI Science Journal
ISSN (print)	1948-2590
ISSN (online)	1948-2604
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