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 4.0. 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 the ADS abstract service.
TeX macro Journal name --------- --------------------------------------------------------- aj Astronomical Journal actaa Acta Astronomica araa Annual Review of Astron and Astrophys 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 azh Astronomicheskii Zhurnal baas Bulletin of the AAS caa Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics cjaa Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics icarus Icarus jcap Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics jrasc Journal of the RAS of Canada memras Memoirs of the RAS mnras Monthly Notices of the RAS na New Astronomy nar New Astronomy Review 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 pasa Publications of the Astron. Soc. of Australia pasp Publications of the ASP pasj Publications of the ASJ rmxaa Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica qjras Quarterly Journal of the RAS skytel Sky and Telescope solphys Solar Physics sovast Soviet Astronomy ssr Space Science Reviews zap Zeitschrift fuer Astrophysik nat Nature iaucirc IAU Cirulars aplett Astrophysics Letters apspr Astrophysics Space Physics Research bain Bulletin Astronomical Institute of the Netherlands fcp Fundamental Cosmic Physics gca Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta grl Geophysics Research Letters jcp Journal of Chemical Physics jgr Journal of Geophysics Research jqsrt Journal of Quantitiative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer memsai Mem. Societa Astronomica Italiana nphysa Nuclear Physics A physrep Physics Reports physscr Physica Scripta planss Planetary Space Science procspie Proceedings of the SPIE