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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Gewin, V. Count on It. Nature 2007, 445, 946–947.
A journal article with 2 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Pike, A. Origination; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015; ISBN 9781118556313.
An edited book
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 titleAtmosphere
AbbreviationAtmosphere (Basel)
ISSN (online)2073-4433
ScopeAtmospheric Science
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)

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