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