ApSS referencing style

Question

After submitting a paper to springer I got this error message:

Please revise the paper to conform with ApSS referencing style which is not [n].

What does that mean?

I am using the revtex4-1 class.

This is an example sample of my paper

\documentclass[% 
reprint,
amsmath,amssymb,
 aps,onecolumn,showkeys,
%pra,
%prb,
%rmp,
%prstab,
%prstper,
%floatfix,
]{revtex4-1}

\usepackage{graphicx}% Include figure files
\usepackage{dcolumn}% Align table columns on decimal point
\usepackage{bm}% bold math
%\usepackage{hyperref}% add hypertext capabilities
%\usepackage[mathlines]{lineno}% Enable numbering of text and display math
%\linenumbers\relax % Commence numbering lines

%\usepackage[showframe,%Uncomment any one of the following lines to test 
%%scale=0.7, marginratio={1:1, 2:3}, ignoreall,% default settings
%%text={7in,10in},centering,
%%margin=1.5in,
%%total={6.5in,8.75in}, top=1.2in, left=0.9in, includefoot,
%%height=10in,a5paper,hmargin={3cm,0.8in},
%]{geometry}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.11}
\begin{document}



\title{Title}




\author{Name}%

\affiliation{%
Aff
}%






\date{\today}% It is always \today, today,
             %  but any date may be explicitly specified

\begin{abstract}
abstract
\begin{description}

\item[PACS numbers] 04.50.Kd, 04.20.-q, 04.25.Nx
\end{description}
\end{abstract}

\pacs{04.50.Kd, 04.20.-q, 04.25.Nx}% PACS, the Physics and Astronomy
                             % Classification Scheme.
\keywords{keywords}
\maketitle

%\tableofcontents

\section{Introduction}
s





\begin{thebibliography}{1}
\bibitem{dolgov2003can} Dolgov, Alexander D. {\em Can modified gravity explain accelerated cosmic expansion?} 2003: Physical Review D 68 123512.

\bibitem{nojiri2003modified} Nojiri, Shin’ichi and Odintsov, Sergei D {\em Modified gravity with negative and positive powers of curvature: Unification of inflation and cosmic acceleration} 2003: Physics Letters B 573 1-4.

\bibitem{carroll2003cosmic} Carroll, Sean M and Duvvuri, Vikram and Trodden, Mark and Turner, Michael S {\em Is cosmic speed-up due to new gravitational physics?} 2003

\bibitem{thorne2000gravitation} Wheeler, Thorne, Wheeler {\em Gravitation} 2003:  636–679

\bibitem{song2007large} Song, Yong-Seon and Hu, Wayne and Sawicki, Ignacy {\em Large scale structure of $f(R)$ gravity} 2007: Physical Review D 044004

\bibitem{faulkner2007constraining} Faulkner, Thomas and Tegmark, Max and Bunn, Emory F and Mao, Yi {\em Constraining $f(R)$ gravity as a scalar-tensor theory} 2007: Physical Review D 063505

\bibitem{bean2007dynamics} Bean, Rachel and Bernat, David and Pogosian, Levon and Silvestri, Alessandra and Trodden, Mark {\em Dynamics of linear perturbations in $f(R)$ gravity} 2007: Physical Review D 064020

\bibitem{sawicki2007stability} Sawicki, Ignacy and Hu, Wayne {\em Stability of cosmological solutions in $f(R)$ models of gravity} 2007: Physical Review D 127502

\bibitem{li2007cosmology} Li, Baojiu and Barrow, John D {\em Cosmology of $f(R)$ gravity in the metric variational approach} 2007: Physical Review D 084010

\bibitem{tsujikawa2008effect} Tsujikawa, Shinji and Tatekawa, Takayuki {\em The effect of modified gravity on weak lensing} 2008: Physical Review B 325--331

\bibitem{carroll2005cosmology} Carroll, Sean M and De Felice, Antonio and Duvvuri, Vikram and Easson, Damien A and Trodden, Mark and Turner, Michael S {\em Cosmology of generalized modified gravity models} 2005: Physical Review D 063513

\bibitem{starobinsky2007disappearing} Starobinsky, Alexei A {\em Disappearing cosmological constant in $f(R)$ gravity} 2007: JETP Letters 157--163


\bibitem{saaidi2012strong} Saaidi, Kh and Vajdi, A and Rabiei, SW and Aghamohammadi, A and Sheikhahmadi, H {\em Strong and weak gravitational field in $R+{\mu^{4}}/R$ gravity} 2012: Astrophysics and Space Science 739--745

\bibitem{arbuzova2012curvature} Arbuzova, EV and Dolgov, AD and Reverberi, L {\em Curvature oscillations in modified gravity and high energy cosmic rays} 2012: Eur. Phys. J. C 2247

\bibitem{cognola2008class} Cognola, G and Elizalde, E and Nojiri, S and Odintsov, SD and Sebastiani, L and Zerbini, S {\em Class of viable modified f (R) gravities describing inflation and the onset of accelerated expansion} 2008: Physical Review D 046009

\bibitem{gannouji2009growth} Gannouji, Radouane and Moraes, Bruno and Polarski, David {\em The growth of matter perturbations in $f(R)$ models} 2009: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 034

\bibitem{bengochea2009dark} Bengochea, Gabriel R and Ferraro, Rafael {\em Dark torsion as the cosmic speed-up} 2009: Physical Review D 124019

\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

Answer 1

Springer supports the use of BibTeX in terms of its references. And, since it requires journal-specific reference styles, it's best to use a reference tool like BibTeX to manage the layout to suit the submission needs.

Looking at your document template, you've created a bibliography manually. That is, you've specified a thebibliography environment with \bibitems verbatim. Instead, you should follow these steps:

1. Download the LaTeX Author Package for publications in ASTR journal

   astr-support.zip includes a bunch of files. Specifically it includes a BibTeX style spr-mp-nameyear-cnd.bst.

2. Construct your references in a file references.bib (say) using the default BibTeX syntax that has the form

   @<type>{<bibID>,<key-value list>}
   

   For example, let's take one of your \bibitems and rewrite it in this form:

   @article{arbuzova2012curvature,
     author  = Arbuzova, EV and Dolgov, AD and Reverberi, L,
     title   = Curvature oscillations in modified gravity and high energy cosmic rays,
     year    = 2012,
     journal = Eur.\ Phys.\ J.\ C,
     pages   = 2247
   }
   

3. Now, instead of a thebibliography environment, you should have

   \bibliographystyle{spr-mp-nameyear-cnd}
   \bibliography{references}
   

Of course, the above setup is completely different to what you're used to. You need to follow a compilation sequence pdfLaTeX > bibtex > pdfLaTeX > pdfLaTeX in order to test your output. See Question mark or bold citation key instead of citation number. However, this seems to be the way that Springer requests/would accept submissions.