How to format your references using the Boundary-Layer Meteorology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 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

Bourzac K (2014) Diagnosis: Early warning system. Nature 513:S4-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Waldmann H, Cobbold S (2004) Exploiting tolerance processes in transplantation. Science 305:209–212

A journal article with 3 authors

Royle NJ, Russell AF, Wilson AJ (2014) The evolution of flexible parenting. Science 345:776–781

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kurz WA, Dymond CC, Stinson G, et al (2008) Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change. Nature 452:987–990

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poltorak AI, Lerner PJ (2011) Essentials of Intellectual Property. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Warren R, Menter A (eds) (2016) Handbook of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Krugman RD (2013) Introduction and Commentary: The Battered Child. In: Krugman RD, Korbin JE (eds) C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 21–22

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 Boundary-Layer Meteorology.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Scales, Feathers, and Hair All Evolved From A Common Ancestor. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scales-feathers-and-hair-all-evolved-from-a-common-ancestor/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1997) Airfield Pavements. 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

Goldstein J (2012) Murder in Colonial Albany: European and Indian Responses to Cross-Cultural Murders. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Waldstein D, Rothenberg B (2016) They Built a Roof. It Got Loud. Now What? New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bourzac 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Waldmann and Cobbold 2004; Bourzac 2014).

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

Two authors: (Waldmann and Cobbold 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kurz et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Boundary-Layer Meteorology
Abbreviation	Boundary Layer Meteorol.
ISSN (print)	0006-8314
ISSN (online)	1573-1472
Scope	Atmospheric Science