How to format your references using the Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Lynden-Bell, D.: Retrospective. Allan Sandage (1926-2010), Science, 330, 1763, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Restuccia, D. F. and Hemmings, B. A.: Cell signaling. Blocking Akt-ivity, Science, 325, 1083–1084, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, X., Roberti, R., and Blobel, G.: Structure of an integral membrane sterol reductase from Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum, Nature, 517, 104–107, 2015.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Etienne, R. S., Latimer, A. M., Silander, J. A., Jr, and Cowling, R. M.: Comment on “Neutral ecological theory reveals isolation and rapid speciation in a biodiversity hot spot,” Science, 311, 610, 2006.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Lindahl, D.: Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

Patalano, R. and Reinert, S. A. (Eds.): Antonio Serra and the Economics of Good Government, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, IX, 374 p pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Green, T. R.: Linking Climate Change and Groundwater, in: Integrated Groundwater Management: Concepts, Approaches and Challenges, edited by: Jakeman, A. J., Barreteau, O., Hunt, R. J., Rinaudo, J.-D., and Ross, A., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 97–141, 2016.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography.

Blog post

How To Build A City Fit For 50℃ Heatwaves: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-build-city-fit-50-heatwaves/, last access: 30 October 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office: Air Traffic Control: Smaller Terminal Systems’ Capacity Requirements Need to Be Defined, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Makovec, M. G.: A study of the factors predicting attrition and contributing to the attrition rate of high school teachers in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2008.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

(nyt), S. K.: World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Kidnapped Boy Freed After Three Years, New York Times, 12th December, A21, 2003.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lynden-Bell, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Lynden-Bell, 2010; Restuccia and Hemmings, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Restuccia and Hemmings, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Etienne et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography
ISSN (print)	2364-3579
ISSN (online)	2364-3587
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