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

Dando, P. R.: Obituary: Alan J. Southward (1928-2007), Nature, 451, 28, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tulin, A. and Spradling, A.: Chromatin loosening by poly(ADP)-ribose polymerase (PARP) at Drosophila puff loci, Science, 299, 560–562, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baron-Cohen, S., Knickmeyer, R. C., and Belmonte, M. K.: Sex differences in the brain: implications for explaining autism, Science, 310, 819–823, 2005.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Spitzer, D., Risse, B., Schnell, F., Pichot, V., Klaumünzer, M., and Schaefer, M. R.: Continuous engineering of nano-cocrystals for medical and energetic applications, Sci. Rep., 4, 6575, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pischella, M. and Le Ruyet, D.: Digital Communications 2, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

Rosin, P., Adamatzky, A., and Sun, X. (Eds.): Cellular Automata in Image Processing and Geometry, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XVI, 304 p. 164 illus., 49 illus. in color pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Gui, C. and Shang, C.: Autonomous Science Target Touchability Evaluation: A Fuzzy Logic-Based Approach, in: Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 8th International Conference, ICIRA 2015, Portsmouth, UK, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings, Part III, edited by: Liu, H., Kubota, N., Zhu, X., Dillmann, R., and Zhou, D., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 49–61, 2015.

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

Dark Grape Compound May Help The Body Burn Fat: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dark-grape-compound-may-help-body-burn-fat/, 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: Chemical and Biological Warfare: Use of Collective Protection on Vehicles, Aircraft, and Ships, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flamenco, E.: A financial abuse prevention program for older adults: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Hu, W. and Remnick, N.: City Requires Tower Checks; Outbreak Toll Climbs to 10, New York Times, 7th August, A19, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dando, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Dando, 2008; Tulin and Spradling, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Tulin and Spradling, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Spitzer et al., 2014)

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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