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

Fenton, M.B., 2011. Ecology. The world through a bat’s ear. Science 333, 528–529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conradt, L., Roper, T.J., 2003. Group decision-making in animals. Nature 421, 155–158.

A journal article with 3 authors

Law, R.M., Matear, R.J., Francey, R.J., 2008. Comment on “Saturation of the southern ocean CO2 sink due to recent climate change.” Science 319, 570; author reply 570.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Montes-Hugo, M., Doney, S.C., Ducklow, H.W., Fraser, W., Martinson, D., Stammerjohn, S.E., Schofield, O., 2009. Recent changes in phytoplankton communities associated with rapid regional climate change along the western Antarctic Peninsula. Science 323, 1470–1473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castañeda, L.B., Arunachalam, V., Dharmaraja, S., 2012. Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nakamura, S., Kondo, Y. (Eds.), 2009. Waste Input-Output Analysis: Concepts and Application to Industrial Ecology, Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer, A.L., Rohlf, T., 2012. Investigating the Role of Cross-Talk Between Chemical and Stromal Factors in Endothelial Cell Phenotype Determination, in: Jackson, T.L. (Ed.), Modeling Tumor Vasculature: Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Level Aspects and Implications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 79–101.

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., 2015. New Layer of Rock Discovered in Earth’s Mantle [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/insanely-stiff-layer-rock-discovered-earths-mantle/ (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, 1991. Meeting the Aviation Challenges of the 1990s: Experts Define Key Problems and Identify Emerging Issues (No. RCED-91-152). 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

Edwards, J.W., 2006. The Relation Between Expressed Emotion and Adolescent Psychopathology (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Film Series. New York Times C21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fenton, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Conradt and Roper, 2003; Fenton, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Conradt and Roper, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Montes-Hugo et al., 2009)

About the journal

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