How to format your references using the Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. 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

Crothers, D.M., 2013. Biophysics. Fine tuning gene regulation. Science 339, 766–767.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milton, A.L., Everitt, B.J., 2012. Neuroscience. Wiping drug memories. Science 336, 167–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scarf, D., Hayne, H., Colombo, M., 2011. Pigeons on par with primates in numerical competence. Science 334, 1664.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chamot-Rooke, J., Mikaty, G., Malosse, C., Soyer, M., Dumont, A., Gault, J., Imhaus, A.-F., Martin, P., Trellet, M., Clary, G., Chafey, P., Camoin, L., Nilges, M., Nassif, X., Duménil, G., 2011. Posttranslational modification of pili upon cell contact triggers N. meningitidis dissemination. Science 331, 778–782.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kieser, J., Taylor, M., Carr, D., 2012. Forensic Biomechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Heilmann, C., 2007. Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Waleffe, F., Wang, J., 2005. Transition Threshold and the Self-Sustaining Process, in: Mullin, T., Kerswell, R. (Eds.), IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Finite Amplitude Solutions, Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 85–106.

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 Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Building Blocks Of life Found Among Organic Compounds On Comet 67P – What Philae Discoveries Mean [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/building-blocks-life-found-among-organic-compounds-comet-67p-what-philae-discoveries-mean/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. Information Security: Department of Education and Other Federal Agencies Need to Better Implement Controls (No. GAO-16-228T). 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

Murray, E., 2012. California community college athletic directors lived experience and perceptions about financing issues with athletic programs (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2013. Dosas, Big and Bigger. New York Times LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crothers, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Crothers, 2013; Milton and Everitt, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Milton and Everitt, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Chamot-Rooke et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
Abbreviation	Dyn. Atmos. Oceans
ISSN (print)	0377-0265
Scope	Atmospheric Science Computers in Earth Sciences Geology Oceanography