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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
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
Barratt, A. (2015). Perspective: The risks of overdiagnosis. Nature, 527(7578), S104.
A journal article with 2 authors
Sheinin, M. Y., & Wang, M. D. (2012). Biochemistry. A DNA twist diffuses and hops. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 56–57.
A journal article with 3 authors
Farkas, I., Helbing, D., & Vicsek, T. (2002). Mexican waves in an excitable medium. Nature, 419(6903), 131–132.
A journal article with 21 or more authors
Carroll, K. S., Hanna, J., Simon, I., Krise, J., Barbero, P., & Pfeffer, S. R. (2001). Role of Rab9 GTPase in facilitating receptor recruitment by TIP47. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5520), 1373–1376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Center for Chemical Process Safety. (1995). Guidelines for Safe Process Operations and Maintenance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Schneider, G., Grazioli, L., & Saini, S. (Eds.). (2006). MRI of the Liver: Imaging Techniques, Contrast Enhancement, Differential Diagnosis (2nd Edition). Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
van Eemeren, F., Garssen, B., & Meuffels, B. (2009). The Opening Stage: The Obligation-to-Defend Rule (I). In B. Garssen & B. Meuffels (Eds.), Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness: Empirical Research Concerning the Pragma-Dialectical Discussion Rules (pp. 111–137). Springer Netherlands.

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
Andrew, D. (2015, January 3). What Happens To Our Bodies After We Die? IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-happens-our-body-after-we-die/

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. (1992). Computer Reservation Systems (RCED-92-225R). 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
Lai, J.-P. (2008). Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog Deleted on Chromosome Ten (PTEN) As A Molecular Target in Lung Epithelial Wound Repair and Protection [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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
MacFARQUHAR, N. (2017, July 17). No Dancer Escapes His Gaze. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barratt, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Barratt, 2015; Sheinin & Wang, 2012).

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

  • Two authors: (Sheinin & Wang, 2012)
  • Three or more authors: (Carroll et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleAtmosphere-Ocean
AbbreviationAtmosphere-Ocean
ISSN (print)0705-5900
ISSN (online)1480-9214
ScopeAtmospheric Science
Oceanography

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