How to format your references using the Atmosphere citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atmosphere. 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

Smaglik, P. Cash Crisis in the Corridor. Nature 2003, 423, 203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Charbonneau, P.; Smolarkiewicz, P.K. Astronomy. Modeling the Solar Dynamo. Science 2013, 340, 42–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benham-Pyle, B.W.; Pruitt, B.L.; Nelson, W.J. Cell Adhesion. Mechanical Strain Induces E-Cadherin-Dependent Yap1 and β-Catenin Activation to Drive Cell Cycle Entry. Science 2015, 348, 1024–1027.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ma, A.; Xu, J.; Zhang, X.; Zhang, B.; Wang, D.; Xu, H. Interfacial Nanodroplets Guided Construction of Hierarchical Au, Au-Pt, and Au-Pd Particles as Excellent Catalysts. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nussbaumer, A.; Borges, L.; Davaine, L. Fatigue Design of Steel and Composite Structures; Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG: Berlin, Germany, 2012; ISBN 9783433601181.

An edited book

Ambrosetti, A. Perturbation Methods and Semilinear Elliptic Problems on Rn; Malchiodi, A., Ed.; Progress in Mathematics; Birkhäuser: Basel, 2006; Vol. 240; ISBN 9783764373214.

A chapter in an edited book

Mantel, H.; Sudbrock, H. Information-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis of Interrupt-Related Covert Channels. In Formal Aspects in Security and Trust: 5th International Workshop, FAST 2008 Malaga, Spain, October 9-10, 2008 Revised Selected Papers; Degano, P., Guttman, J., Martinelli, F., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp. 67–81 ISBN 9783642014642.

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 Atmosphere.

Blog post

Fang, J. Dung Beetles Orient By Taking Snapshots Of Celestial Scenery Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dung-beetles-orient-taking-snapshots-celestial-scenery/ (accessed on 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 Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Status; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fischer, D. Psychology and People Living with Hiv/Aids: A Critical Review of the Literature. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2012.

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

Wilson, M. From Fortunetelling to a Forgery Accusation, the Tale of a Psychic’s Arrest. New York Times 2017, A17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmosphere
Abbreviation	Atmosphere (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2073-4433
Scope	Atmospheric Science Environmental Science (miscellaneous)