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

Perez, F.: Cell biology: Organelles under light control, Nature, 518, 41–42, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miltat, J. and Thiaville, A.: Ferromagnetism. Vortex cores--smaller than small, Science, 298, 555, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ehrsson, H. H., Spence, C., and Passingham, R. E.: That’s my hand! Activity in premotor cortex reflects feeling of ownership of a limb, Science, 305, 875–877, 2004.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Whitchurch, C. B., Tolker-Nielsen, T., Ragas, P. C., and Mattick, J. S.: Extracellular DNA required for bacterial biofilm formation, Science, 295, 1487, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

P. Wen, E., Ellis, R., and S. Pujar, N.: Vaccine Development and Manufacturing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Lemmon, D. R.: Developing Statistical Software in Fortran 95, edited by: Schafer, J. L., Springer, New York, NY, XVI, 324 p pp., 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Tronti, L.: The July Protocol and Economic Growth: The Chance Missed, in: Social Pacts, Employment and Growth: A Reappraisal of Ezio Tarantelli’s Thought, edited by: Acocella, N. and Leoni, R., Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, 69–95, 2007.

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

Robot Hitchhiker Will Make Its Way Across The U.S. This Summer:

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: Vehicle Safety: Opportunities Exist to Enhance NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McConnell, M. E.: A Dual Diagnosis of Hearing Loss and an Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Illustrative Case Study, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Rothenberg, B.: Del Potro Shakes an Illness To Reach the Quarterfinals, New York Times, 5th September, B8, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perez, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Miltat and Thiaville, 2002; Perez, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Miltat and Thiaville, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Whitchurch et al., 2002)

About the journal

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