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How should one cite the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics?
They do have a rather strange numbering scheme. There are 12 "issues"
per year, and the volume number is the same as the year number, and really is 4 digits. (Most online-only journals (unless, perhaps, they have a history of paper publication) tend to have one volume per year, usually starting at vol. 1 whenever the journal was founded, and article identifiers instead of page numbers, with no issues or numbers within the volumes. Example: https://astro.theoj.org/ .) ADS tends to treat their issues like volumes in their identifiers (which normally don't have issues or numbers), but this isn't completely consistent since they start over at 1 every year whereas volumes are usually continuously numbered. Of course, together with the year it is a unique identifier. Actually, they aren't even consistent themselves, recommending citations such as JCAP08(2016)013 which, aside from being ugly, would normally suggest vol. 8, p. 13 from year 2016. Bu their website clearly indicates that the volume number is the same is the year and that the other number is the issue number (usually, in most journals, not given in the reference list). So for, say, volume 2013, issue 5, id or page 37 there would be the choice of 5, 37, 2013 or 2013, 13, 2013. if the order is volume, page, year. There doesn't seem to be an official recommendation, and like I wrote the journal itself is inconsistent. What do people here do? Is there any official recommendation? Of course, with links to the DOI in the reference list, the actual form is less important than it once was. Still, many journals, whether electronic or paper or both, still have conventional reference lists. |
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How should one cite the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics?
On Thu, 09 Apr 2020, "Phillip Helbig wrote:
So for, say, volume 2013, issue 5, id or page 37 there would be the choice of 5, 37, 2013 or 2013, 13, 2013. What do people here do? Is there any official recommendation? On the ADS page https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/20....037G/abstract they use the form 2013JCAP...05..037G so I suppose it's safe to use a variant of that. |
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How should one cite the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics?
In article , Eric Flesch
writes: On Thu, 09 Apr 2020, "Phillip Helbig wrote: [about how to cite articles in JCAP which has an unorthodox numbering scheme] So for, say, volume 2013, issue 5, id or page 37 there would be the choice of 5, 37, 2013 or 2013, 13, 2013. What do people here do? Is there any official recommendation? On the ADS page https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/20....037G/abstract they use the form 2013JCAP...05..037G so I suppose it's safe to use a variant of that. That's what I went with. ADS is not an official recommendation, but is to some extent a de-facto standard. One reason I went with it is that it conforms to ADS. It also avoids having the same number twice (as the volume number and the year), which looks strange and like a mistake. It also follows their own standard about how the articles should be cited (the "cite as" feature in the articles themselves). It also makes it easier to actually find the article if one doesn't have a direct link. So in many respects the issue number plays the role of the volume number for other journals. On the other hand, they explicitly say that the volume number is the same as the year. Also, the issue number starts over at 1 every year, whereas volume numbers (almost?) always continue to increase throughout the life of the journal. (With issue and page numbers, there are two conventions. Sometimes the issue numbers start over at 1 with each new volume, sometimes they just continue. Usually, page numbers continue throughout the issues within a volume, but sometimes they start over with each issue, in which case the issue number is actually needed to (quickly) find the article.) Fortunately, BibTeX (which I still use despite the fact that some say that it is obsolete and BibLaTeX is the best new thing) can take care of all this automatically. I recently had occasion to create a new .bst (BibTeX style) file. Anyone who has looked at one of these knows that it is written in a rather low-level language and is thus hard to understand. However, on most LaTeX systems one can just type "latex makebst" and answer the questions and a .bst will be generated automatically. I suspect that traditional reference lists will be with us for a while to come. I've seen some papers with, in addition to the traditional information, for each reference links to the DOI, the ADS entry, and the arXiv entry (each of these might or might not exist for a given article). Since the ADS bibcode has a standard format, it is possible to generate it automatically from the information in a typical BibTeX entry (at least if one uses the issue number for the volume number for JCAP), and ADS has links to the DOI and arXiv if they exist, so it should be possible to write a program which reads a BibTeX file and updates it with those three new fields (DOI, ADS, and arXiv links), retrieving them from ADS on the fly. Has anyone ever done this? |
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How should one cite the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics?
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"Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)" writes: ADS is not an official recommendation, but is to some extent a de-facto standard. I don't know of any IAU or AAS official standards; citation format seems to be up to each journal. That means the same paper can be cited different ways in different journals. In fact, one sees A&A in some journals and Astr. Ap. in others. If the journal has its own cls file, that should include a bibliography style. As a practical matter, I'd see what ADS "export citation" produces and use that if it's not ridiculous. -- Help keep our newsgroup healthy; please don't feed the trolls. Steve Willner Phone 617-495-7123 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA |
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