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

Weinberg, R.: Point: Hypotheses first, Nature, 464, 678, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aide, T. M. and Grau, H. R.: Ecology. Globalization, migration, and Latin American ecosystems, Science, 305, 1915–1916, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eccleston, A., Cesari, F., and Skipper, M.: Transcription and epigenetics, Nature, 502, 461, 2013.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Wilkins, C., Dishongh, R., Moore, S. C., Whitt, M. A., Chow, M., and Machaca, K.: RNA interference is an antiviral defence mechanism in Caenorhabditis elegans, Nature, 436, 1044–1047, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Battu, D.: New Telecom Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Jupille, J. and Thornton, G. (Eds.): Defects at Oxide Surfaces, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XVI, 462 p. 202 illus., 95 illus. in color pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Bildirici, I. O., Ustun, A., Ulugtekin, N., Selvi, H. Z., Abbak, R. A., Bugdayci, I., and Dogru, A. O.: Compilation of Digital Elevation Model for Turkey in 3-Arc-Second Resolution by Using SRTM Data Supported with Local Elevation Data, in: Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe: CEE 2009, edited by: Gartner, G. and Ortag, F., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 63–76, 2009.

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

First Step Taken Toward Anti-Aging Drug: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/rapamycin-boosts-immune-function-takes-baby-step-toward-anti-aging-drug/, 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: Federal Student Loans: Oversight of Defaulted Loan Rehabilitation Needs Strengthening, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chiang, I.-C.: A historical technique from a modern perspective: The transcription scordatura in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2010.

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

Murphy, M. J. O.: ‘Friday File’: The Whitney’s 1966 Debut (Now the Met Breuer), New York Times, 26th February, C26, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weinberg, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Aide and Grau, 2004; Weinberg, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Aide and Grau, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wilkins et al., 2005)

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