How to format your references using the Atmospheric Environment: X citation style

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

Bennetzen, J., 2002. The rice genome. Opening the door to comparative plant biology. Science 296, 60–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hu, J., Yu, M.-F., 2010. Meniscus-confined three-dimensional electrodeposition for direct writing of wire bonds. Science 329, 313–316.

A journal article with 3 authors

Di Toro, G., Goldsby, D.L., Tullis, T.E., 2004. Friction falls towards zero in quartz rock as slip velocity approaches seismic rates. Nature 427, 436–439.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, Y., Chen, X., Xie, Y., Li, X., Li, F., Hou, Z., 2014. Effects of young poplar plantations on understory plant diversity in the Dongting Lake wetlands, China. Sci. Rep. 4, 6339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nash, J., 2013. Diabetes and Wellbeing. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Salvetti, M.V., Geurts, B., Meyers, J., Sagaut, P. (Eds.), 2011. Quality and Reliability of Large-Eddy Simulations II, ERCOFTAC Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Srivastava, S., Goyal, P., 2010. Hyperaccumulation: A Phytoremedial Approach, in: Goyal, P. (Ed.), Novel Biomaterials: Decontamination of Toxic Metals from Wastewater, Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–42.

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: X.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. The Number Of Chimpanzees Used In Biomedical Research Is Declining [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/number-chimpanzees-used-biomedical-research-declining/ (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, 2013. Department of Homeland Security: Oversight and Coordination of Research and Development Efforts Could Be Strengthened (No. GAO-13-766T). 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

Hebbard, M.T., 2015. A Depositional Analysis of the Reeves Sand in Beauregard and Allen Parishes, Louisiana (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. By Honoring Their Past, the Giants Were Duly Rewarded. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bennetzen, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bennetzen, 2002; Hu and Yu, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Hu and Yu, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Environment: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1621
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