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

Pielke R Jr (2011) John Marburger (1941-2011). Nature 476:284

A journal article with 2 authors

Radtke F, Clevers H (2005) Self-renewal and cancer of the gut: two sides of a coin. Science 307:1904–1909

A journal article with 3 authors

Kippenberg TJ, Holzwarth R, Diddams SA (2011) Microresonator-based optical frequency combs. Science 332:555–559

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Thyme SB, Jarjour J, Takeuchi R, et al (2009) Exploitation of binding energy for catalysis and design. Nature 461:1300–1304

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang B, Qiu D (2014) Sneak Circuits of Power Electronic Converters. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Jacob RJK, Limbourg Q, Vanderdonckt J (eds) (2005) Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces IV: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces CADUI’2004 Sponsored by ACM and jointly organised with the Eight ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces IUI’2004 13–16 January 2004, Funchal, Isle of Madeira. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

García-Montero LG, Quintana SM, Casermeiro MA, et al (2010) A GIS Raster Model for Assessing the Environmental Quality of Spain Focused on SEA and Infrastructure Planning Procedures (LATINO Model). In: Rauch S, Morrison GM, Monzón A (eds) Highway and Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 9th Highway and Urban Environment symposium. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 31–38

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 (2015) Sharks’ Ability To Hunt Could Be Altered Under Climate Change. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sharks-ability-hunt-could-be-altered-under-climate-change/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Estimated Costs, Planned Uses of Emergency Funding, and Future Implications. 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

Neal DJ (2009) Prehospital Patient Triage in Mass Casualty Incidents: An engineering management analysis and prototype strategy recommendation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Wagner J (2016) Collins Dwells Only on the Job, Not on Job Security. New York Times D3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pielke 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Radtke and Clevers 2005; Pielke 2011).

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

Two authors: (Radtke and Clevers 2005)
Three or more authors: (Thyme et al. 2009)

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