The journal Acta Astrophysica Taurica uses the Harvard referencing style (i.e. author-year). It is the responsibility of the authors to ensure the accuracy of their references. This is particularly important for the online version of the journal, where links are provided to cited references. If the reference details are wrong then the links will fail, and the citations will not be counted in bibliographic databases.

Citations in Text

In-text citations contain the author(s)’s or editor(s)’s surname and year of publication. Using an example author, this takes the form:

The observations of Mitchell (2008)... Or (Mitchell, 2017).

When citing a source with two authors, state all surnames like so:

The observations of Mitchell and Smith (2008) …

Or (Mitchell, Coyne, 2017).

Papers by three or more authors are cited by the first author followed by ‘et al.’ and the date (Mitchell et al., 1994).

For several papers by the same author(s), use (Mitchell, 1992, 1995) or Smith et al. (2000a, b) show that…

When several papers are cited in brackets, list the in-text citations in the normal way but with semicolons between different references: (Smith et al., 1990; Mitchell et al., 1995).

No Author: If possible, use the organization responsible for the post in place of the author. If not, use the title in italics: (A guide to citation, 2017).

Reference List

The reference list should include no bold or italic and no commas after author surnames. All sources cited in the text and tables must appear in the reference list at the end of the manuscript, and all entries in the reference list must be cited in the manuscript. Reference entries should be ordered alphabetically, starting with the last name of the first author, followed by the first author’s initial(s). For articles with more than five authors, the last name and initials of the first three authors only should be listed, followed by a comma and “et al.”

If any catalogs, databases, 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. Some catalogues, databases and software do provide guidelines on how they should be cited − if so then these guidelines should be followed. 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.

References to articles in preparation, preprints, or other sources generally not available to readers should be avoided if possible. Check preprint references in case any of these have been formally published since your manuscript was prepared; if the preprints have not been published, please give the reference (e.g, arXiv) number and the journal to which the work has been submitted. Private communications, unpublished works, and articles in preparation should be cited only in the run of text, giving authors’ initials and the year, that is Smith (2009, in preparation).

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

 

JOURNALS

Template: 
Author Surname A., Year Published. Journal short title, volume number, issue number, pages.

Zirin H. and Lazareff B., 1975. Sol. Phys., vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 425−438.

Rix H.V., 1998. Astron. Astrophys. Trans., in press.

 

BOOK

Template:
Author Surname A., Year Published. Title, ed. Publisher, City.

Zombeck M., 1990. Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, UK.

Article or chapter in an edited book

Template:
Author Surname A., Year Published. in Editor(s), Title. Publisher, City, p. Pages Used.

Huchra J.A., 1986. In Kolb E.W., et al. (Eds),  Inner Space, Outer Space. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, p. 65.

 

CATALOGUE

Template:
Author Surname A., Year Publeshed. Catalog title, Publisher, City

Hoffleit, D., 1982. The Bright Star Catalogue, Yale Univ. Obs., New Haven.

Kukarkin B.V., Kholopov P.N., Efremov Yu.N., et al., 1969. General Catalogue of Variable Stars, 3rd ed., Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow.

Ritter H. and Kolb U., 2016. Catalogue of Cataclysmic Binaries, Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries and Related Objects. Available at: http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/RKcat/ (Accessed: 15 December 2016).

 

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Template:
Author Surname A., Year Published. in Editor(s), Conference series title and number. Journal short title, Publisher, City, p. Pages Used.

Garrido R., 2000. In Brege M., Montgomery M.H. (Eds), Delta Scuti and Related Stars, ASP Conf. Ser. Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco: ASP, vol. 210, p. 67.

Castelli F. and Kurucz R.L., 2003. In Piskunov N., Weiss W.W., and Gray D.F. (Eds), Modelling of Stellar Atmospheres, Proc. 210th IAU Symp. San Francisco: ASP, p. A20.

Electronic Conference Proceedings (published only online)

Gomez M., 2000. in Bento M.C., Bertolami O., Teodoro L. (Eds), Cosmology 2000. Inst. Superio Tecnico, Lisbon, id. 2.1. Available at: http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~bento/cosmo2000/proc/proceedings.html (Accessed: 25 December 2018).

 

PREPRINTS

Template:
Author Surname A., Year Publeshed. preprint (preprint series and number).

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

PhD thesis

Template:
Author Surname A., Year Published. Title (Level). Institution Name.

Stevens A. L., 2018. New techniques for understanding rapid X-ray variability from compact objects (PhD thesis). Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands.