How to format your references using the Atmospheric Environment citation style

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

Gordon, R.G., 2000. Plate tectonics. The Antarctic connection. Nature 404, 139–140.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reik, W., Dean, W., 2002. Back to the beginning. Nature 420, 127.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baulch, H.M., Stanley, E.H., Bernhardt, E.S., 2011. Can algal uptake stop NO3(-) pollution? Nature 477, E3; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuroha, T., Nagai, K., Gamuyao, R., Wang, D.R., Furuta, T., Nakamori, M., Kitaoka, T., Adachi, K., Minami, A., Mori, Y., Mashiguchi, K., Seto, Y., Yamaguchi, S., Kojima, M., Sakakibara, H., Wu, J., Ebana, K., Mitsuda, N., Ohme-Takagi, M., Yanagisawa, S., Yamasaki, M., Yokoyama, R., Nishitani, K., Mochizuki, T., Tamiya, G., McCouch, S.R., Ashikari, M., 2018. Ethylene-gibberellin signaling underlies adaptation of rice to periodic flooding. Science 361, 181–186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weber, P., Simon, C., 2016. Benefits of Bayesian Network Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kreutzer, R.T., 2015. Digital Darwinism: Branding and Business Models in Jeopardy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Grefen, P., Eshuis, R., Duncan Stalker, I., Kouvas, G., 2010. Architecture Aspect, in: Mehandjiev, N., Grefen, P. (Eds.), Dynamic Business Process Formation for Instant Virtual Enterprises, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London, pp. 49–68.

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 Environment.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Genes Could Be Influencing Our Weight By Shaping Which Microbes Inhabit Our Gut [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1986. [Comments on Effect of P.L. 99-177 on Teacher Loan Cancellation Program] (No. B-221498.13). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Annan, F., 2012. Spatial pattern of yield distributions: implications for crop insurance (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Billard, M., 2013. Brooklyn Is Roasting by an Open Fire. New York Times E11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gordon, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gordon, 2000; Reik and Dean, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Reik and Dean, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kuroha et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Environment
Abbreviation	Atmos. Environ. (1994)
ISSN (print)	1352-2310
Scope	Atmospheric Science General Environmental Science