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

Hoag, H.: Tougher rules aim to prevent gene flow into crops, Nature, 422, 103, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucić, V. and Baumeister, W.: Neuroscience. Monte Carlo places strong odds on ectopic release, Science, 309, 387–388, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, R.-P., Chew, K.-H., and He, S.: Dynamic control of collapse in a vortex Airy beam, Sci. Rep., 3, 1406, 2013.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ley, R. E., Turnbaugh, P. J., Klein, S., and Gordon, J. I.: Microbial ecology: human gut microbes associated with obesity, Nature, 444, 1022–1023, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keene, J.: Clients with Complex Needs: Interprofessional Practice, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

Goossens, S.: Memory Controllers for Mixed-Time-Criticality Systems: Architectures, Methodologies and Trade-offs, edited by: Chandrasekar, K., Akesson, B., and Goossens, K., Springer International Publishing, Cham, XXVII, 202 p. 78 illus. in color pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu, P., Lin, L., Wang, F., Wang, J., and Wang, M.: Improving Recommendations with Collaborative Factors, in: Web-Age Information Management: 15th International Conference, WAIM 2014, Macau, China, June 16-18, 2014. Proceedings, edited by: Li, F., Li, G., Hwang, S.-W., Yao, B., and Zhang, Z., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 30–33, 2014.

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

You Have Flies to Thank for That Pleasing Beer Smell: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/you-have-flies-thank-pleasing-beer-smell/, 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: Air Traffic Control: Continuing Delays Anticipated for the Advanced Automation System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Castillo-Garrison, E. M.: Asilomar Leadership Skills Seminar: The career preparation, advancement, and enhancement of women in California community college leadership, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2012.

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

Koblin, J.: Another Williams Takes His Turn, New York Times, 21st July, B8, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag, 2003; Lucić and Baumeister, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lucić and Baumeister, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ley et al., 2006)

About the journal

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