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

Gewin, V. Count on It. Nature 2007, 445, 946–947.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scotland, R.W.; Sanderson, M.J. The Significance of Few versus Many in the Tree of Life. Science 2004, 303, 643.

A journal article with 3 authors

Niethammer, P.; Bastiaens, P.; Karsenti, E. Stathmin-Tubulin Interaction Gradients in Motile and Mitotic Cells. Science 2004, 303, 1862–1866.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hiramoto, M.; Hiromi, Y.; Giniger, E.; Hotta, Y. The Drosophila Netrin Receptor Frazzled Guides Axons by Controlling Netrin Distribution. Nature 2000, 406, 886–889.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pike, A. Origination; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015; ISBN 9781118556313.

An edited book

Software Engineering and Formal Methods: SEFM 2014 Collocated Workshops: HOFM, SAFOME, OpenCert, MoKMaSD, WS-FMDS, Grenoble, France, September 1-2, 2014, Revised Selected Papers; Canal, C., Idani, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; Vol. 8938; ISBN 9783319152004.

A chapter in an edited book

Singer, M.B. Impact Scales of Fluvial Response to Management along the Sacramento River, California, USA: Transience Versus Persistence. In Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe; Hudson, P.F., Middelkoop, H., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2015; pp. 53–85 ISBN 9781493923793.

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

Andrew, E. What Is The Biggest Star In The Universe? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-biggest-star-universe/ (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 Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Time Is Running Out for Federal Agencies to Prepare for the New Millennium; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1997;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jin, R. Graph-Based Rhythm Interpretation in Optical Music Recognition. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University: Bloomington, IN, 2017.

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

Poniewozik, J. Good Characters Are Hard to Find. New York Times 2017, C10.

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)