Journal Macros
Journal Abbreviations used in the ADS BibTeX entries
Some of the LaTeX-compatible reference formats created by ADS contain macros that need to be properly expanded by TeX or LaTeX in order to produce the correct output. Since the particular formatting depends on the macro package used by the author or publisher and since these formats change with time, we suggest that users always resolve these macros by incorporating the appropriate style file in their documents. The most popular set of macros in use today in astronomy are the ones defined in the AASTeX package and supported by the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. If you use any of the TeX-based formats generated by ADS, you should consider installing and incorporating the AASTeX macros to facilitate the preparation of your manuscript.
However, if for some reason you do not want or are not able to use the AAS macro package, you have the option of incorporating just the macros in your paper as described below. The following macros are taken from the AASTeX macro package version 6.3.1. You will need to include these macros in your LaTeX source only if you are not using the AASTeX package and need to resolve the macro definitions found in the BibTeX entries returned by ADS. You can copy the needed macros from the table below, or download the .sty file to include in your LaTeX source here.
TeX Macro | Journal Name |
\aas | American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts |
\aj | Astronomical Journal |
\actaa | Acta Astronomica |
\araa | Annual Review of Astron and Astrophysis |
\apj | Astrophysical Journal |
\apjl | Astrophysical Journal, Letters |
\apjs | Astrophysical Journal, Supplement |
\ao | Applied Optics |
\apss | Astrophysics and Space Science |
\aap | Astronomy and Astrophysics |
\aapr | Astronomy and Astrophysics Reviews |
\aaps | Astronomy and Astrophysics, Supplement |
\aplett | Astrophysics Letters |
\apspr | Astrophysics Space Physics Research |
\azh | Astronomicheskii Zhurnal |
\baas | Bulletin of the AAS |
\bain | Bulletin Astronomical Institute of the Netherlands |
\caa | Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics |
\cjaa | Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
\dps | American Astronomical Society/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts |
\fcp | Fundamental Cosmic Physics |
\gca | Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta |
\grl | Geophysics Research Letters |
\iaucirc | IAU Cirulars |
\icarus | Icarus |
\jaavso | Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers |
\jcap | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
\jcp | Journal of Chemical Physics |
\jgr | Journal of Geophysics Research |
\jqsrt | Journal of Quantitiative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer |
\jrasc | Journal of the RAS of Canada |
\maps | Meteoritics and Planetary Science |
\memras | Memoirs of the RAS |
\memsai | Mem. Societa Astronomica Italiana |
\mnras | Monthly Notices of the RAS |
\na | New Astronomy |
\nar | New Astronomy Review |
\nat | Nature |
\nphysa | Nuclear Physics A |
\pasa | Publications of the Astron. Soc. of Australia |
\pasp | Publications of the ASP |
\pasj | Publications of the ASJ |
\physrep | Physics Reports |
\physscr | Physica Scripta |
\planss | Planetary Space Science |
\pra | Physical Review A: General Physics |
\prb | Physical Review B: Solid State |
\prc | Physical Review C |
\prd | Physical Review D |
\pre | Physical Review E |
\prl | Physical Review Letters |
\procspie | Proceedings of the SPIE |
\psj | Planetary Science Journal |
\qjras | Quarterly Journal of the RAS |
\rmxaa | Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica |
\skytel | Sky and Telescope |
\solphys | Solar Physics |
\sovast | Soviet Astronomy |
\ssr | Space Science Reviews |
\zap | Zeitschrift fuer Astrophysik |