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

Meyer, M. N.: Misjudgements will drive social trials underground, Nature, 511, 265, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sundquist, W. I. and Ullman, K. S.: CELL BIOLOGY. An ESCRT to seal the envelope, Science, 348, 1314–1315, 2015.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schultz, P. H., Staid, M. I., and Pieters, C. M.: Lunar activity from recent gas release, Nature, 444, 184–186, 2006.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Kessler, J. D., Kahle, K. T., Sun, T., Meerbrey, K. L., Schlabach, M. R., Schmitt, E. M., Skinner, S. O., Xu, Q., Li, M. Z., Hartman, Z. C., Rao, M., Yu, P., Dominguez-Vidana, R., Liang, A. C., Solimini, N. L., Bernardi, R. J., Yu, B., Hsu, T., Golding, I., Luo, J., Osborne, C. K., Creighton, C. J., Hilsenbeck, S. G., Schiff, R., Shaw, C. A., Elledge, S. J., and Westbrook, T. F.: A SUMOylation-dependent transcriptional subprogram is required for Myc-driven tumorigenesis, Science, 335, 348–353, 2012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bolstad, W. M. and Curran, J. M.: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

Rana, A. Q.: Neuroradiology in Clinical Practice, edited by: Zumo, L. A. and Sim, V., Springer International Publishing, Cham, XIII, 104 p. 65 illus., 9 illus. in color pp., 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Pulina, L. and Tacchella, A.: Hard QBF Encodings Made Easy: Dream or Reality?, in: AI*IA 2009: Emergent Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence: XIth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence Reggio Emilia, Italy, December 9-12, 2009 Proceedings, edited by: Serra, R. and Cucchiara, R., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 31–41, 2009.

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

Three Trillion Trees Live On Earth, But There Would Be Twice As Many Without Humans: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/three-trillion-trees-live-earth-there-would-be-twice-many-without-humans/, 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: Relationship of Contractor and Grantee ADP Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jackson, M.: Creating community in a dual immersion program: A grant writing project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

Brantley, B.: Theater; Three Sisters, Lots of Kvetching, New York Times, 26th July, AR3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meyer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Meyer, 2014; Sundquist and Ullman, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sundquist and Ullman, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kessler et al., 2012)

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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