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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Stan, R.: The borders I crossed, Science, 345, 1650, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grant, M. R. and Jones, J. D. G.: Hormone (dis)harmony moulds plant health and disease, Science, 324, 750–752, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richmond, B. J., Liu, Z., and Shidara, M.: Neuroscience. Predicting future rewards, Science, 301, 179–180, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Li, J. J., Zang, X. F., Mao, J. F., Tang, M., Zhu, Y. M., and Zhuang, S. L.: Overlapped optics induced perfect coherent effects, Sci. Rep., 3, 3569, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blumberg, L. M.: Temperature-Programmed Gas Chromatography, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

Abo, M.: Rehabilitation with rTMS, 1st ed. 2015., edited by: Kakuda, W., Springer International Publishing, Cham, XIV, 208 p. 81 illus., 34 illus. in color pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Jakushokas, R., Popovich, M., Mezhiba, A. V., Köse, S., and Friedman, E. G.: Decoupling Capacitance, in: Power Distribution Networks with On-Chip Decoupling Capacitors, edited by: Popovich, M., Mezhiba, A. V., Köse, S., and Friedman, E. G., Springer, New York, NY, 89–138, 2011.

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 Discussions.

Blog post

Pottery Remnants Reveal What Was Cooking 10,000 Years Ago: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pottery-remnants-reveal-what-was-cooking-10000-years-ago/, 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: Competition: Information on Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Atchley, D.: Interventions, perceptions of accommodations, and motivating factors impacting the achievement and successful mainstreaming transition of English language learners, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2009.

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

St. John Kelly, E.: At the Nation’s Table: Davenport, Calif.; A New-Age Juice Intended For Women, New York Times, 25th January, C4, 1995.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stan, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Grant and Jones, 2009; Stan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Grant and Jones, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions
Abbreviation	Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss.
ISSN (online)	1680-7375
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