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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Hla, T., 2005. Immunology. Dietary factors and immunological consequences. Science 309, 1682–1683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhandoola, A., Artis, D., 2012. Immunology. Rebuilding the thymus. Science 336, 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wara, M.W., Ravelo, A.C., Delaney, M.L., 2005. Permanent El Niño-like conditions during the Pliocene warm period. Science 309, 758–761.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Martin, P.R., Lee, B.B., White, A.J., Solomon, S.G., Rüttiger, L., 2001. Chromatic sensitivity of ganglion cells in the peripheral primate retina. Nature 410, 933–936.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maguire, L., Smith, E., 2012. 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Nilsson, A., 2016. Vibro-Acoustics, Volume 3, 2nd ed. 2016. ed. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Broersen, J., 2014. A stit Logic Analysis of Morally Lucky and Legally Lucky Action Outcomes, in: Müller, T. (Ed.), Nuel Belnap on Indeterminism and Free Action, Outstanding Contributions to Logic. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 75–98.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. What’s The Most Dangerous Supervolcano In The World? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/whats-the-most-dangerous-volcano-in-the-world/ (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, 1990. Customs Automation: Duties and Other Collections Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse (No. IMTEC-90-29). 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

Ahn, M., 2017. Student Perception of Language Achievement and Learner Autonomy in a Blended Korean Language Course: The Case Study of Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Feeney, K., 2007. One Stop for Homey or Haute. New York Times 14NJ14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hla, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bhandoola and Artis, 2012; Hla, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Bhandoola and Artis, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Martin et al., 2001)

About the journal

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