How to format your references using the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 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

Schaefer, B. F.: Geochemistry. When do rocks become oil?, Science, 308, 1267–1268, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moënne-Loccoz, P. and Fee, J. A.: Biochemistry. Catalyzing NO to N2O in the nitrogen cycle, Science, 330, 1632–1633, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bosch, R., van de Pol, M., and Philp, J.: Policy: Define biomass sustainability, Nature, 523, 526–527, 2015.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Chen, W., Ren, X.-R., Nelson, C. D., Barak, L. S., Chen, J. K., Beachy, P. A., de Sauvage, F., and Lefkowitz, R. J.: Activity-dependent internalization of smoothened mediated by beta-arrestin 2 and GRK2, Science, 306, 2257–2260, 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tolin, D. F., Worden, B. L., Wootton, B. M., and Gilliam, C. M.: CBT for Hoarding Disorder, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

Gruszka, A., Matthews, G., and Szymura, B. (Eds.): Handbook of Individual Differences in Cognition: Attention, Memory, and Executive Control, First., Springer, New York, NY, XXIV, 494 p pp., 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Pestana, E. A., Belak, S., Diallo, A., Crowther, J. R., and Viljoen, G. J.: Disease Diagnosis Using Real-Time PCR Specific Procedures for Important Veterinary Pathogens, in: Early, rapid and sensitive veterinary molecular diagnostics - real time PCR applications, edited by: Belak, S., Diallo, A., Crowther, J. R., and Viljoen, G. J., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 73–234, 2010.

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 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Blog post

No, The World Isn’t Going To End In September 2015: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/world-going-end-september-2015/, last access: 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: Better Guidance Could Improve Oversight of State Highway Safety Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Orozco, M.: Music preference and its effects on emotion processes and identity development in young adult females: An examination of the “emo” subculture, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2015.

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

Hubbard, B.: Another Casualty of the Syrian War: Drinking Water in Damascus, New York Times, 4th January, A8, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schaefer, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Moënne-Loccoz and Fee, 2010; Schaefer, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Moënne-Loccoz and Fee, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Abbreviation	Atmos. Chem. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1680-7316
ISSN (online)	1680-7324
Scope	Atmospheric Science