How to format your references using the Atmospheric Measurement Techniques citation style

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

Elderfield, H.: Climate change. Carbonate mysteries, Science, 296, 1618–1621, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gal-Yam, A. and Leonard, D. C.: A massive hypergiant star as the progenitor of the supernova SN 2005gl, Nature, 458, 865–867, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCord, T. B., Hansen, G. B., and Hibbitts, C. A.: Hydrated salt minerals on Ganymede’s surface: evidence of an ocean below, Science, 292, 1523–1525, 2001.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Hirama, M., Oishi, T., Uehara, H., Inoue, M., Maruyama, M., Oguri, H., and Satake, M.: Total synthesis of ciguatoxin CTX3C, Science, 294, 1904–1907, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marvin, S.: Dictionary of Scientific Principles, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Stalla-Bourdillon, S.: Privacy vs. Security, edited by: Phillips, J. and Ryan, M. D., Springer, London, VIII, 115 p. 7 illus pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Buskes, G., Bu, Q., and Kusraev, A. G.: Bilinear Maps on Products of Vector Lattices: A Survey, in: Positivity, edited by: Boulabiar, K., Buskes, G., and Triki, A., Birkhäuser, Basel, 97–126, 2007.

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 Measurement Techniques.

Blog post

Mysterious Beached Whale Baffles Researchers: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-beaked-whale-found-unusual-teeth-which-baffles-researchers/, last access: 30 October 2018.

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: Aviation Security: TSA Has Made Progress, but Additional Efforts Are Needed to Improve Security, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cooper, T.: Biting Animals, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

Harwood, J.: Republicans are battling themselves, New York Times, 7th October, A2, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elderfield, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Elderfield, 2002; Gal-Yam and Leonard, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gal-Yam and Leonard, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Hirama et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Abbreviation	Atmos. Meas. Tech.
ISSN (print)	1867-1381
ISSN (online)	1867-8548
Scope	Atmospheric Science