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

Pasachoff, J.M., 2012. Transit of Venus: Last chance to see. Nature 485, 303–304.

A journal article with 2 authors

Festing, M.F., Fisher, E.M., 2000. Mighty mice. Nature 404, 815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Z., Yu, H., Su, H., 2013. The transport properties of oxygen vacancy-related polaron-like bound state in HfOx. Sci. Rep. 3, 3246.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Niemela, J.J., Skrbek, L., Sreenivasan, K.R., Donnelly, R.J., 2000. Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers. Nature 404, 837–840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marsh, N., 2014. Forensic Photography. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lin, C.Y.-Y., 2014. National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Yuz, J.I., Goodwin, G.C., 2014. Asymptotic Sampling Zeros, in: Goodwin, G.C. (Ed.), Sampled-Data Models for Linear and Nonlinear Systems, Communications and Control Engineering. Springer, London, pp. 47–58.

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

Davis, J., 2017. Multimillion-Dollar Stradivarius Violins Sound No Better Than Modern Instruments [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/multimilliondollar-stradivarius-violins-sound-no-better-than-modern-instruments/ (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, 2003. Opportunities for Oversight and Improved Use of Taxpayer Funds: Examples from Selected GAO Work (No. GAO-03-1006). 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

Huffman, K.D., 2009. Teacher and administrator perceptions of a balanced school calendar and its effects on students in poverty (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Rojas, R., Remnick, N., Palmer, E., 2016. Prosecutor Adds First-Degree Murder Charge in Killing of Imam and Aide. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pasachoff, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Festing and Fisher, 2000; Pasachoff, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Festing and Fisher, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Niemela et al., 2000)

About the journal

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