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

Schiermeier, Q., 2003: Home truths. Nature, 423, 900–901.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ödman-Govender, C. J., and D. Kelleghan, 2011: SPORE series winner. Astronomical perspectives for young children. Science, 333, 1106–1107.

A journal article with 3 authors

Viswanathan, S. R., G. Q. Daley, and R. I. Gregory, 2008: Selective blockade of microRNA processing by Lin28. Science, 320, 97–100.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Topinka, M. A., B. J. LeRoy, R. M. Westervelt, S. E. Shaw, R. Fleischmann, E. J. Heller, K. D. Maranowski, and A. C. Gossard, 2001: Coherent branched flow in a two-dimensional electron gas. Nature, 410, 183–186.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertein, J.-C., and R. Ceschi, 2013: Discrete Stochastic Processes and Optimal Filtering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Hall, R. E., ed., 2013: The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse. Springer Netherlands, XIV, 350 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Guck, D., H. Hatefi, H. Hermanns, J.-P. Katoen, and M. Timmer, 2013: Modelling, Reduction and Analysis of Markov Automata. Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 10th International Conference, QEST 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 27-30, 2013. Proceedings, K. Joshi, M. Siegle, M. Stoelinga, and P.R. D’Argenio, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 55–71.

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

Hale, T., 2017: Investigation Gives Glimpse Into The Scale Of The Shark Fin Trade. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/investigation-gives-glimpse-into-the-scale-of-the-shark-fin-trade/ (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, 1973: Contract Award Protest. 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

Virchez Azuara, A., 2015: A human resource perspective on the development of workforce agility. Pepperdine 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

Marx, L., 2010: Michelle McGann and Jonathan Satter. New York Times, June 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2003; Ödman-Govender and Kelleghan 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ödman-Govender and Kelleghan 2011)
Three or more authors: (Topinka et al. 2001)

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