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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Willis, J.H., 2009. Genetics. Origin of species in overdrive. Science 323, 350–351.
A journal article with 2 authors
Joseph, S.B., Swanstrom, R., 2014. HIV/AIDS. A fitness bottleneck in HIV-1 transmission. Science 345, 136–137.
A journal article with 3 authors
Zwieniecki, M.A., Melcher, P.J., Michele Holbrook, N.M., 2001. Hydrogel control of xylem hydraulic resistance in plants. Science 291, 1059–1062.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Senthil, T., Vishwanath, A., Balents, L., Sachdev, S., Fisher, M.P.A., 2004. Deconfined quantum critical points. Science 303, 1490–1494.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Smaini, L., 2012. RF Analog Impairments Modeling for Communication Systems Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
Jatowt, A., Lim, E.-P., Ding, Y., Miura, A., Tezuka, T., Dias, G., Tanaka, K., Flanagin, A., Dai, B.T. (Eds.), 2013. Social Informatics: 5th International Conference, SocInfo 2013, Kyoto, Japan, November 25-27, 2013, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
A chapter in an edited book
Farnan, J.M., Arora, V.M., 2014. Graduate Medical Education and Patient Safety, in: Agrawal, A. (Ed.), Patient Safety: A Case-Based Comprehensive Guide. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 53–68.

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
Fang, J., 2014. Multitasking Alters Your Gray Matter [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/multitasking-alters-your-gray-matter/ (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, 1993. USDA Research and Extension Agencies: Missions, Structures, and Budgets (No. RCED-93-74FS). 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
Chen, C.-Y., 2010. The analysis of communication problems and language barriers between patients and physicians in California (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
Hodara, S., 2014. Soaring on Paper Wings. New York Times WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willis, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Joseph and Swanstrom, 2014; Willis, 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Joseph and Swanstrom, 2014)
  • Three or more authors: (Senthil et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleAtmospheric Research
AbbreviationAtmos. Res.
ISSN (print)0169-8095
ScopeAtmospheric Science

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