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

Reich, J., 2015. Education research. Rebooting MOOC research. Science 347, 34–35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clardy, J., Walsh, C., 2004. Lessons from natural molecules. Nature 432, 829–837.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo, J., Zhu, J., Ye, H., 2004. Comment on “Tubular graphite cones.” Science 303, 766; author reply 766.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tadin, D., Lappin, J.S., Gilroy, L.A., Blake, R., 2003. Perceptual consequences of centre-surround antagonism in visual motion processing. Nature 424, 312–315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu, S.F., 2005. Analysis and Design of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ramanathan, S. (Ed.), 2010. Thin Film Metal-Oxides: Fundamentals and Applications in Electronics and Energy. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Heimfarth, T., Orfanus, D., Wagner, F.R., 2008. Resource-Aware Clustering of Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Division of Labor in Social Insects, in: Hinchey, M., Pagnoni, A., Rammig, F.J., Schmeck, H. (Eds.), Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Second IFIP TC 10 International Conference on Biologically-Inspired Collaborative Computing, September 8–9, 2008, Milano, Italy, IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 45–58.

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., 2014. Oceans in imminent danger of losing a quarter of all sharks and stingrays [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oceans-imminent-danger-losing-quarter-all-sharks-and-stingrays/ (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, 1970. Controls Over Computer-Generated Output at the Naval Supply Center, Oakland (No. 092817). 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

Eaglen Bertrando, S.L., 2017. Rethinking Workplace Learning in the Digital World: A Case Study of Open Badges (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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., 2010. Bradley Logs Miles Before World Cup. New York Times B18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reich, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Clardy and Walsh, 2004; Reich, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Clardy and Walsh, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Tadin et al., 2003)

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