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

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

Mastrandrea, M. D.: Obituary: Stephen Henry Schneider (1945-2010), Nature, 466, 933, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bonnet, R.-M. and Bleeker, J. A. M.: Astrophysics. A dark age for space astronomy?, Science, 333, 161–162, 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

Passarelli, L., Rivalta, E., and Shuler, A.: Dike intrusions during rifting episodes obey scaling relationships similar to earthquakes, Sci. Rep., 4, 3886, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Cao, Y., Wang, N., Tian, H., Guo, J., Wei, Y., Chen, H., Miao, Y., Zou, W., Pan, K., He, Y., Cao, H., Ke, Y., Xu, M., Wang, Y., Yang, M., Du, K., Fu, Z., Kong, D., Dai, D., Jin, Y., Li, G., Li, H., Peng, Q., Wang, J., and Huang, W.: Perovskite light-emitting diodes based on spontaneously formed submicrometre-scale structures, Nature, 562, 249–253, 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, S.-L.: Raman Spectroscopy and its Application in Nanostructures, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

Aguiar-Moya, J. P., Vargas-Nordcbeck, A., Leiva-Villacorta, F., and Loría-Salazar, L. G. (Eds.): The Roles of Accelerated Pavement Testing in Pavement Sustainability: Engineering, Environment, and Economics, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XVII, 905 p. 523 illus., 364 illus. in color pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, X., Liu, Y., and Tu, D.: Optical Spectroscopy of Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles, in: Lanthanide-Doped Luminescent Nanomaterials: From Fundamentals to Bioapplications, edited by: Liu, Y. and Tu, D., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 75–123, 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 Discussions.

Blog post

Study Linking “Everyday Chemicals” To Cancer Has Been Completely Misrepresented: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/study-everyday-chemicals-cancer-completely-misrepresented/, 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: Guaranteed Student Loans: Eliminating Interest Rate Floors Could Generate Substantial Savings, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhao, X.: Exfoliation Corrosion Kinetics of High Strength Aluminum Alloys, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2006.

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

Anderson, J.: A Palestinian Hip-Hop Film. From Israel, New York Times, 2nd March, AR14, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mastrandrea, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Bonnet and Bleeker, 2011; Mastrandrea, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bonnet and Bleeker, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Cao et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions
Abbreviation	Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss.
ISSN (online)	1867-8610
Scope	Atmospheric Science