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

Linder, P., 2004: Molecular biology. The life of RNA with proteins. Science, 304, 694–695.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoshi, T., and S. Lahiri, 2004: Cell biology. Oxygen sensing: it’s a gas! Science, 306, 2050–2051.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, C., X. Zhang, and Z. Cao, 2005: Triangular and Fibonacci number patterns driven by stress on core/shell microstructures. Science, 309, 909–911.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Yang, L., C. Wang, A. Holst-Jensen, D. Morisset, Y. Lin, and D. Zhang, 2013: Characterization of GM events by insert knowledge adapted re-sequencing approaches. Sci. Rep., 3, 2839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lacaze, P. C., and J.-C. Lacroix, 2014: Non-Volatile Memories. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Lytras, M. D., P. Ordonez de Pablos, E. Damiani, D. Avison, A. Naeve, and D. G. Horner, eds., 2009: Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All: Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, XXVIII, 586 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Blischke, W. R., M. Rezaul Karim, and D. N. Prabhakar Murthy, 2011: Warranty Claims Data. Warranty Data Collection and Analysis, M.R. Karim and D.N.P. Murthy, Eds., Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, Springer, 61–77.

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

Andrew, E., 2014: Coming Soon: A Telescope Large Enough to Spot Alien Life. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/space/coming-soon-telescope-large-enough-spot-alien-life/ (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, 1999: Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness Improving Yet Essential Actions Remain to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services. 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

McClain, R., 2009: The role of spirituality/religiosity in the lives of people who are hearing impaired. 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

Wogan, J., 2016: Beds and a Banana. New York Times, November 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Linder 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Linder 2004; Hoshi and Lahiri 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hoshi and Lahiri 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al. 2013)

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