Format

All sources cited in the text and tables must appear in the reference list at the end of the paper, and all entries in the reference list must be cited in the text.

References to published literature should be listed at the end of the manuscript and numbered consecutively in the order of their citation in the text. In-text citations can use bracketed superscript reference numbers. Private communications or unpublished reports should be treated as references. For papers with more than three authors, the last name and initials of the first three authors only should be listed, followed by a comma and "et al." 

Please check sample book, journal, and Internet references below:

Article in a periodical

1. Yang, Y., Yu, G. R., Pan, S. G., et al. 2013. A comprehensive algorithm using fusion of tropospheric delay models. Journal of Southeast University(Natural Science Edition), 43(S2): 418-422.

2. Lu, W. J., Ma, G. Y. 2022. Near-real-time ionospheric tec derivation from single station with neural network. Astronomical Research & Technology, 19(2): 141-148. 

Entire book

3. Che, J., Jiang, K., Yan, F., et al. 2020. Amphibians and Reptiles in Tibet Diversity and Evolution. Beijing: Science Press.  (in Chinese)

4. Fei, L., Hu, S. Q., Ye, C. Y., et al. 2009. Fauna Sinica. Volume 2: Amphibia, Anura. Beijing: Science Press. (in Chinese)

Article in a book

5. King, S. M. 2003. Dynein motors: Structure, mechanochemistry and regulation. In Molecular Motors. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 45-78.

6. Ohl, R., Barkouser, R., Conard, S., et al. 2000. Performance of the far ultraviolet spectroscopic explorer mirror assemblies. In Instrumentation for UV/EUV Astronomy and Solar Missions. SPIE, 137-148.

Article in conference proceeding

7. Lockwood, M. K. , Ercol, C. J., Cho, W. , et al. 2010. An active cooling system for the solar probe power system. In 40th International Conference on Environmental Systems.

8. Kim, Y. 2014, Convolutional neural networks for sentence classification. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

9. Pepe, F. A., Cristiani, S., Rebolo Lopez, R., et al. 2010. ESPRESSO: the Echelle spectrograph for rocky exoplanets and stable spectroscopic observations. In Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series. DOI:10.1117/12.857122.

Article in degree thesis

10. Staats, K. 2016. Genetic programming applied to RFImitigation in radio astronomy. Master thesis, University of Cape Town.

Citation of Electronic Sources

Electronic catalogs, databases, observers' guides, instrument documentation, electronic conference proceedings, electronic journals, and other stable (non-changing) documents available online should be listed in the reference list in the same manner as other references. 

These should give the author(s) or authoring agency, title of the document, location and name of the hosting organization (e.g., Pasadena, CA: JPL), version consulted if any, page or document number if any, and the URL (see examples below). References in this class include databases, manuals, conference proceedings, and similar documents, but not general informational sites for instruments or projects, sites for downloading computer code, or papers posted on personal web pages. Citations of electronic journals should follow normal journal format, omitting page number if none are used, followed by the URL. See below for examples.

Note that URLs for all other electronic resources, such as personal web pages, general informational sites for organizations, telescopes, surveys, projects, proposals, sites for uploading computer or mathematical code, and other sites whose content regularly changes, should be given in a footnote at first mention in the text, but not listed in the reference list.

Online reference

11. Rothwarf, D. M., Karin, M. 1999. The NF-kB pathway: a paradigm in information transfer from membrane to nucleus. Science’s STKE. http://www.stke.org/cgi/content/full/OC_sigtrans;1999/5/rel.

Computer program

12. Hubbard, S. J., Thornton, J. M. 1993. NACCESS computer program (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London).

Dataset Reference

13. Creator Name. Dataset Title, Repository Name, version (publication year). https://doi.org/.....

Unpublished Material

References to papers in preparation, preprints, or other sources generally not available to readers should be avoided if possible. If no published form is available, preprints may be listed in the reference list. Private communications, unpublished works, and papers in preparation should be cited only in the run of text, giving authors' initials and the year if completion is imminent, e.g., F. Carlon et al. (2009, in preparation).

Examples of correct styles for some common reference forms are given below.

Preprints

14. Smith, A. B. 1999, preprint (astro-ph/9912345)

Author(s) [Last name, First-name initials], Year, preprint (preprint series and number)

15. Djorgovski, S. G., Mahabal, A. A., Graham, M. J., et al.2022. Applications of AI in astronomy. arXiv: 2212.01493.

16. Johnston, D. E., Sheldon, E. S., Wechsler, R. H., et al.2007. Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS galaxyClusters II: Cluster Density Profiles and the Mass–Richness Relation. arXiv: 0709.1159.

Unpublished data (In text)

(Adams M, unpublished data)

Abstract (In text)

(Adams M, 1997, Soc. Neurosci., abstract)

Personal communication (In text)

(Adams M, personal communication)