Principal Journals of Astronomy and Astrophysics
(with abbreviations from a recent volume of Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys.)
Titles which are struck through are no longer published.

A.  American

    1.   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys.)
    2.   Astronomical Journal (Astron. J.)
    3.   Astrophysical Journal (Ap. J.)
    4.   Astrophysical Journal Letters (Ap. J. Lett.)
    5.   Astrophysical Journal Supplement (Ap. J. Suppl.)
    6.   Icarus [a journal of solar system studies]
    7.   Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac.)

B.  Western European

    1.  Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astron. Astrophys.)
    2.  Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement (Astron. Astrophys. Suppl.)
    3.  Annales D'Astrophysique (Ann. d'ap.) [French]
    4.  Arkiv for Astronomy (Arkiv. Astron.) [Swedish]
    5.  Bulletin of the Astronomical Institute of the Netherlands (Bull. Astron. Inst. Neth.) [Dutch]
    6.  Zeitschrift für Astrophysics (Z. Astrophys.) [German]

C.  British

    1.  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
    2.  The Observatory [a hodgepodge collection of important papers, financial reports, meeting minutes, anecdotes, public lectures,
         correspondence, book reviews, etc.]
    3.  Royal Observatory Bulletin (R.O.B.)
    4.  Vistas in Astronomy [mostly reviews over a wide, sometimes even offbeat, range of topics]

D.  Less Cited Publications

    1.  Arkiv für Astrophysik
    2.  Astronomische Nachrichten
    3.  Astrophysics (URSS)
    4.  Astrophysics and Space Science
    5.  Annals of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory
    6.  Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of Czechoslovakia
    7.  Bulletin du Centre de Données Stellaires de Strasbourg
    8.  Colloquia of the International Astronomical Union (I.A.U. Colloq.)
    9.  Publications of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
  10.  Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
  11.  Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (Inde)
  12.  Mededelingen van Het Astronomich Institut van de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  13.  Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society
  14.  Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana
  15.  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  16.  Publications of the David Dunlap Observatory
  17.  Publications de l'Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg
  18.  Publications de l'Observatoire de Haute-Provence
  19.  Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
  20.  Royal Greenwich Observatory Annals
  21.  Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica
  22.  Soviet Astronomy - Letters
  23.  South African Astronomical Observatory Circulars
  24.  Symposia of the International Astronomical Union (I.A.U. Symp.)
  25.  Transactions of the International Astronomical Union (I.A.U. Trans.)

E.  Related-Field Journals which often Contain Papers of Astronomical Significance

    1.  Nature
    2.  Physical Review (Phys. Rev.)
    3.  Reviews of Modern Physics (Rev. Mod. Phys.)
    4.  Science
    5.  Solar Physics (Sol. Phys.)
    6.  Space Science Review (Space Sci. Rev.)

F.  Popular and Semi-Technical Journals

    1.  Astronomy
    2.  Griffith Observer
    3.  Mercury [published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific]
    4.  Scientific American
    5.  Sky and Telescope
    6.  Sterne and Weltrum [in German]

A comprehensive list of astronomical journals, containing many less cited journals not found above, is posted at http://www.library.umaine.edu/sec/curtis/info4au/default.htm.  This site also contains links to the websites of these journals.