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

Baron, N., 2010: Stand up for science. Nature, 468, 1032–1033.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stoneburner, R. L., and D. Low-Beer, 2004: Population-level HIV declines and behavioral risk avoidance in Uganda. Science, 304, 714–718.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martinez-Perez, E., P. Shaw, and G. Moore, 2001: The Ph1 locus is needed to ensure specific somatic and meiotic centromere association. Nature, 411, 204–207.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Nan, T., M. Liu, W. Ren, Z.-G. Ye, and N. X. Sun, 2014: Voltage control of metal-insulator transition and non-volatile ferroelastic switching of resistance in VOx/PMN-PT heterostructures. Sci. Rep., 4, 5931.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nguyen, T., 2012: Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Larner, A. J., ed., 2013: Cognitive Screening Instruments: A Practical Approach. Springer, X, 247 p. 10 illus., 3 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Scherzer, O., M. Grasmair, H. Grossauer, M. Haltmeier, and F. Lenzen, 2009: Variational Calculus for Non-convex Regularization. Variational Methods in Imaging, M. Grasmair, H. Grossauer, M. Haltmeier, and F. Lenzen, Eds., Applied Mathematical Sciences, Springer, 159–183.

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., 2015: Lexus Have Seriously Built A Working Hoverboard. IFLScience,. (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, 1990: Agriculture ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. 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

Rutherford, K. B., 2017: 500 Year Chenier, Architecture, Cultural Identity, and Land Change “Identification in a Dynamic Place.” University of Louisiana, .

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

Stewart, J. B., 2017: Tough Times For Disciples Of Ayn Rand. New York Times, July 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baron 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Baron 2010; Stoneburner and Low-Beer 2004).

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

Two authors: (Stoneburner and Low-Beer 2004)
Three or more authors: (Nan et al. 2014)

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