ASTR 104 Astronomy of Planets: AIP Citation Style

AIP (American Institute of Physics) citation style is commonly used for papers and publications in physics and related disciplines.

In-text citation:

• Cite references in the order of appearance using Arabic numbers in superscript format, e.g. ^{1, 2, 3.}

• Refer to authors in text by Surname only

• Use all authors’ names if there are no more than three authors.

• If there are four or more authors, use the first author’s name and “et al” for other authors, e.g. Jazen at al.

Reference List – General Rules

References are listed in the order of appearance in the text. Below are examples of commonly used AIP citation formats.

Reference to a journal/magazine article

Basic format (use abbreviated source title when appropriate)

^# F. M. Surname, Source Volume, start page (Year).

One author:        

¹A. Witze, Nature 542, 279 (2017).

Two authors:        

²C. Guite and V. Venkataraman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 166603 (2011).

Several authors (e.g., ten or fewer):

³U. Schneider, L. Hackermüller, S. Will, T. Best, I. Bloch, T. A. Costi, R. W. Helmes, D. Rasch, and A. Rosch, Science 322, 1520 (2008).

Reference to a book

Regular book: use italic for book title; additional information (Vol., Chap., Sec., p.,etc.) as appropriate

⁴C. D. Murray and S. F. Dermott, Solar System Dynamics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999), p.126

Edited book: use italic for book title; for edited works use form “in" and “by"

⁵J. L. Bishop, in Water on Mars and Life, edited by T. Tokano (Springer, Berlin, 2005), p. 65