How to format your references using the International Journal of Biometeorology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Biometeorology. 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

Hwang WC (2009) Journal club. A structural biologist has great expectations for llamas’ small antibodies. Nature 459:303

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Neil DD, Gillikin DP (2014) Do freshwater mussel shells record road-salt pollution? Sci Rep 4:7168

A journal article with 3 authors

Venditti C, Meade A, Pagel M (2010) Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen. Nature 463:349–352

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rea N, Esposito P, Turolla R, et al (2010) A low-magnetic-field soft gamma repeater. Science 330:944–946

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stefanoiu D, Borne P, Popescu D, et al (2014) Optimization in Engineering Sciences: Approximate and Metaheuristic Methods. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Grady LJ (2010) Discrete Calculus: Applied Analysis on Graphs for Computational Science. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Brezillon P (2011) Contextualization of Scientific Workflows. In: Beigl M, Christiansen H, Roth-Berghofer TR, et al. (eds) Modeling and Using Context: 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 26-30, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–53

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 International Journal of Biometeorology.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) No Surprise As May Breaks Eighth Global Temperature Record In A Row. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/no-surprise-as-may-breaks-eighth-global-temperature-record-in-a-row/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1989) Tactical Airlift: Issues Concerning Air Force Plans for Pacific Distribution System. 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

Fulton E (2010) Differential effects of nicotine on prospective memory, sustained attention, and working memory. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Johnson G (2014) A Tumor, the Embryo’s Evil Twin. New York Times D5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hwang 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Hwang 2009; O’Neil and Gillikin 2014).

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

Two authors: (O’Neil and Gillikin 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rea et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Biometeorology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Biometeorol.
ISSN (print)	0020-7128
ISSN (online)	1432-1254
Scope	Atmospheric Science Ecology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis