How to format your references using the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 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

Larson, S., 2012: Anthropology. Did australopiths climb trees? Science, 338, 478–479.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murray, N., and M. Holman, 2001: The role of chaotic resonances in the Solar System. Nature, 410, 773–779.

A journal article with 3 authors

Damasceno, P. F., M. Engel, and S. C. Glotzer, 2012: Predictive self-assembly of polyhedra into complex structures. Science, 337, 453–457.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Ma, C., and Coauthors, 2018: Gut microbiome-mediated bile acid metabolism regulates liver cancer via NKT cells. Science, 360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonilla, L. L., and S. W. Teitsworth, 2010: Nonlinear Wave Methods for Charge Transport. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA,.

An edited book

Margaria, T., and B. Steffen, eds., 2010: Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation: 4th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications, ISoLA 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 18-21, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, XV, 498 p. 157 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Haseeb, M., and E. R. Hancock, 2013: Eigenvector Sign Correction for Spectral Correspondence Matching. Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2013: 17th International Conference, Naples, Italy, September 9-13, 2013, Proceedings, Part II, A. Petrosino, Ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 41–50.

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 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015: Comet’s Structure Is Like Deep-Fried Ice Cream. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/space/sweet-explanation-cometary-structure/ (Accessed October 30, 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, 1970: Administration of Federal Support of Shore Facilities and Vessels for Research Activities at Oceanographic Institutions. U.S. Government Printing Office,.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Marlatt, E. S., 2013: Effects of accelerated instruction on achievement gains of underprepared Catholic high school freshmen. University of Phoenix, .

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

Davey, M., 2013: Murder Charge In a Case Tied To Race Issues. New York Times, November 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Larson 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Larson 2012; Murray and Holman 2001).

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

Two authors: (Murray and Holman 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ma et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Abbreviation	Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0003-0007
ISSN (online)	1520-0477
Scope	Atmospheric Science