How to format your references using the Atmospheric Research citation style

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

Dolgin, E., 2015. Mental health: Monsters in the mirror. Nature 526, S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vinnakota, R.K., Genov, D.A., 2014. Terahertz optoelectronics with surface plasmon polariton diode. Sci. Rep. 4, 4899.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gawronski, H., Mehlhorn, M., Morgenstern, K., 2008. Imaging phonon excitation with atomic resolution. Science 319, 930–933.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yasui, D., Miyano, M., Cai, S., Varga-Weisz, P., Kohwi-Shigematsu, T., 2002. SATB1 targets chromatin remodelling to regulate genes over long distances. Nature 419, 641–645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abd-El-Barr, M., El-Rewini, H., 2004. Fundamentals of Computer Organization and Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lu, B.-L., Zhang, L., Kwok, J. (Eds.), 2011. Neural Information Processing: 18th International Conference, ICONIP 2011, Shanghai, China, November 13-17, 2011, Proceedings, Part III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Goudelis, G., Tefas, A., Pitas, I., 2010. Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Emerging Biometrics, in: Sencar, H.T., Velastin, S., Nikolaidis, N., Lian, S. (Eds.), Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 97–125.

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 Research.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Carbon Emissions In The UK The Lowest Since 1894 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/carbon-emissions-in-the-uk-the-lowest-since-1894/ (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, 2007. Teacher Quality: Approaches, Implementation, and Evaluation of Key Federal Efforts (No. GAO-07-861T). 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

Herrera, K., 2010. Improved transportation for older adult volunteers: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Baker, L., 2010. Reviving a Poor Neighborhood for Its Inhabitants. New York Times B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dolgin, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Dolgin, 2015; Vinnakota and Genov, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vinnakota and Genov, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yasui et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Research
Abbreviation	Atmos. Res.
ISSN (print)	0169-8095
Scope	Atmospheric Science