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

Müller, R.D. Geophysics. Sedimentary Basins Feeling the Heat from Below. Science 2010, 329, 769–770.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tozer, S.; Morin, X. Neuroscience. Young Neurons Sever Ties to the Parental Niche. Science 2014, 343, 146–147.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dornelas, M.; Connolly, S.R.; Hughes, T.P. Coral Reef Diversity Refutes the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity. Nature 2006, 440, 80–82.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yao, Y.; Tang, H.; Ren, H.; Yu, H.; Wang, L.; Zhang, W.; Behrman, E.J.; Xu, P. Iron(II)-Dependent Dioxygenase and N-Formylamide Deformylase Catalyze the Reactions from 5-Hydroxy-2-Pyridone to Maleamate. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 3235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hollin, C.R. The Psychology of Interpersonal Violence; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781118598450.

An edited book

Kezunovic, M. Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Protective Relays for Power Systems; Ren, J., Lotfifard, S., Eds.; 1st ed. 2016.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; ISBN 9783319209180.

A chapter in an edited book

Fiori, M.; Lintas, A.; Mesrobian, S.; Villa, A.E.P. Effect of Emotion and Personality on Deviation from Purely Rational Decision-Making. In Decision Making and Imperfection; Guy, T.V., Karny, M., Wolpert, D., Eds.; Studies in Computational Intelligence; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 129–161 ISBN 9783642364051.

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

O`Callaghan, J. Martian Valleys May Have Been Formed By Ice, Not Water (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 Highway Safety: Foresight Issues Challenge DOT’s Efforts to Assess and Respond to New Technology-Based Trends; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2008;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Batson, G. Head Start and at -Risk Students: Perceptions of Administrators, Practitioners, and Parents. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 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

Ewing, J. Fiat Chrysler to Modify 100,000 Vehicles After Emission-Cheating Claims. New York Times 2017, B3.

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)