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

Ivins, E.R., 2009. Ocean science. Ice sheet stability and sea level. Science 324, 888–889.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, V.J., Lekkerkerker, H.N.W., 2002. Insights into phase transition kinetics from colloid science. Nature 416, 811–815.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, S.-H., Chen, W.-R., Mallamace, F., 2003. The glass-to-glass transition and its end point in a copolymer micellar system. Science 300, 619–622.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, D., Kong, L., Fan, P., Chen, H., Zhu, S., Liu, W., Cao, L., Sun, Y., Du, S., Schneeloch, J., Zhong, R., Gu, G., Fu, L., Ding, H., Gao, H.-J., 2018. Evidence for Majorana bound states in an iron-based superconductor. Science 362, 333–335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldi, P., Frasconi, P., Smyth, P., 2002. Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Chatzi, E., Papadimitriou, C. (Eds.), 2016. Identification Methods for Structural Health Monitoring, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Casciati, F., Chen, Z., 2010. Using GPS sensors in Structural Mechanics, in: Irschik, H., Krommer, M., Watanabe, K., Furukawa, T. (Eds.), Mechanics and Model-Based Control of Smart Materials and Structures. Springer, Vienna, pp. 29–38.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Is Yawning as Contagious in Bonobos as it is in Humans? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/yawning-contagious-bonobos-it-humans/ (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, 1998. Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making (Superseded by AIMD-99-32) (No. AIMD-98-110). 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

Picchini, A.M., 2010. Neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus: Modulation of stem cell fate by experience (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Shear, M.D., 2017. Trump Imposes New Travel Ban on 7 Countries. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ivins, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson and Lekkerkerker, 2002; Ivins, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Anderson and Lekkerkerker, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2018)

About the journal

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