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

Smith, M. S.: Change the approach to sustainable development, Nature, 483, 375, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enright, M. C. and Spratt, B. G.: Genomics. The genomic view of bacterial diversification, Science, 331, 407–409, 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnarez, C., Marrink, S. J., and Periole, X.: Identification of cardiolipin binding sites on cytochrome c oxidase at the entrance of proton channels, Sci. Rep., 3, 1263, 2013.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Wang, Y.-F., Liu, F., Long, Z.-L., Duan, X.-J., Cui, Q., Yan, J. H., and Chen, H.-F.: Steady-state BOLD response modulates low frequency neural oscillations, Sci. Rep., 4, 7376, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shahidi, A.: Balanced Asset Allocation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Suresh, S.: Supervised Learning with Complex-valued Neural Networks, edited by: Sundararajan, N. and Savitha, R., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XXII, 170 p pp., 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Kundu, D. and Nandi, S.: Estimating the Number of Components, in: Statistical Signal Processing: Frequency Estimation, edited by: Nandi, S., Springer India, New Delhi, 79–90, 2012.

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

The Future Of Data Science Looks Spectacular: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/future-data-science-looks-spectacular/, 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: Investing in the Very Young, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chellamuthu, V. K.: Structured Population Models: Numerical Methods and Application to Frogs Infected with Chytridiomycosis, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2015.

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.: With Memories Entrenched, a Hallowed Site Plows Forward, New York Times, 30th August, SP5, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Enright and Spratt, 2011; Smith, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Enright and Spratt, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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