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

Julian B (2002) Plate tectonics. Seismological detection of slab metamorphism. Science 296:1625–1626

A journal article with 2 authors

Mather J, Mao M (2012) Astronomy: A conversation about observation. Nature 490:S5-7

A journal article with 3 authors

Richmond BJ, Liu Z, Shidara M (2003) Neuroscience. Predicting future rewards. Science 301:179–180

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tio M, Udolph G, Yang X, Chia W (2001) cdc2 links the Drosophila cell cycle and asymmetric division machineries. Nature 409:1063–1067

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster MC (2007) HPLC. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Marques de Sá JP (2013) Minimum Error Entropy Classification. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kornacki JL (2014) Processing Plant Investigations: Practical Approaches to Determining Sources of Persistent Bacterial Strains in the Industrial Food Processing Environment. In: Gurtler JB, Doyle MP, Kornacki JL (eds) The Microbiological Safety of Low Water Activity Foods and Spices. Springer, New York, NY, pp 67–83

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) Blue Origin Shows Off Its New Reusable Rocket To Take On SpaceX. In: IFLScience. 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 (1978) By Making the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory a Federal Computer Center, the Department of Energy Can Save Millions While Serving Government Agencies. 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

Cook EJ (2013) Older Americans Act of 1965, Title III: A policy analysis. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wagner J (2017) Harper’s Return Gives Nationals a Timely Boost. New York Times B13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Julian 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Julian 2002; Mather and Mao 2012).

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

Two authors: (Mather and Mao 2012)
Three or more authors: (Tio et al. 2001)

About the journal

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