How to format your references using the Atmosphere-Ocean citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atmosphere-Ocean. 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	Download the output style file
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. (2003). Language lessons: Heidelberg. Nature, 423(6937), 364–365.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheung, G. Y. C., & Otto, M. (2015). Microbiology: Diverted on the way to memory. Nature, 517(7532), 28–29.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lambert, J. B., Gurusamy-Thangavelu, S. A., & Ma, K. (2010). The silicate-mediated formose reaction: bottom-up synthesis of sugar silicates. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5968), 984–986.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Pannuzzo, M., Raudino, A., Milardi, D., La Rosa, C., & Karttunen, M. (2013). α-helical structures drive early stages of self-assembly of amyloidogenic amyloid polypeptide aggregate formation in membranes. Scientific Reports, 3, 2781.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaszeta, D. (2012). CBRN and Hazmat Incidents at Major Public Events. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Singh, V. K., Srivastava, H. M., Venturino, E., Resch, M., & Gupta, V. (Eds.). (2016). Modern Mathematical Methods and High Performance Computing in Science and Technology: M3HPCST, Ghaziabad, India, December 2015 (Vol. 171). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Banerjee, S., & Mery, D. (2016). Iris Segmentation Using Geodesic Active Contours and GrabCut. In F. Huang & A. Sugimoto (Eds.), Image and Video Technology – PSIVT 2015 Workshops: RV 2015, GPID 2013, VG 2015, EO4AS 2015, MCBMIIA 2015, and VSWS 2015, Auckland, New Zealand, November 23-27, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 48–60). Springer International Publishing.

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-Ocean.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, May 4). Photo Of Pigeon Nest Made Out Of Needles Shared By Vancouver Police. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photo-of-pigeon-nest-made-out-of-needles-shared-by-vancouver-police/

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. (2005). Mass Transit: Preliminary Views on Options for Additional Fiscal Oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (GAO-05-922T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brothers, J. (2009). Nonparametric regression using wavelet transformations and noise reduction in audio signals [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, K. (2002, October 12). Making My Own Music. New York Times, A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Cheung & Otto, 2015; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Cheung & Otto, 2015)
Three authors: (Lambert et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Pannuzzo et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmosphere-Ocean
Abbreviation	Atmosphere-Ocean
ISSN (print)	0705-5900
ISSN (online)	1480-9214
Scope	Atmospheric Science Oceanography