How to format your references using the Atmospheric Pollution Research citation style

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

Dobson, A.P., 2005. Virology. What links bats to emerging infectious diseases? Science 310, 628–629.

A journal article with 2 authors

Daw, N.D., Dayan, P., 2004. Neuroscience. Matchmaking. Science 304, 1753–1754.

A journal article with 3 authors

Makarieva, A.M., Gorshkov, V.G., Li, B.-L., 2009. Comment on “Energy uptake and allocation during ontogeny.” Science 325, 1206; author reply 1206.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

König, M., Wiedmann, S., Brüne, C., Roth, A., Buhmann, H., Molenkamp, L.W., Qi, X.-L., Zhang, S.-C., 2007. Quantum spin hall insulator state in HgTe quantum wells. Science 318, 766–770.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhao, G., 2017. Reuse and Recycling of Lithium-Ion Power Batteries. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Wissing, M.P. (Ed.), 2013. Well-Being Research in South Africa, Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujishiro, M., 2009. Gastrointestinal Epithelial Neoplasms: Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (Methodology), in: Hayat, M.A. (Ed.), Gastrointestinal Carcinoma. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 29–36.

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 Pollution Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Gorgeous New Hubble Image Of Cosmic Butterfly Wings [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/gorgeous-new-hubble-image-cosmic-butterfly-wings/ (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, 2009. Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Management Attention to Long-standing Concerns Needed to Improve Education’s Oversight of Grant Programs (No. GAO-09-309). 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

Gjelaj Merturi, E., 2010. The Perceptions of Principal-Based Leadership Practices on Student Reading Achievement (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, 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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Arrests In 2 Bombings. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Daw and Dayan, 2004; Dobson, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Daw and Dayan, 2004)
Three or more authors: (König et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Pollution Research
Abbreviation	Atmos. Pollut. Res.
ISSN (print)	1309-1042
Scope	Atmospheric Science Pollution Waste Management and Disposal