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

Schiermeier Q (2007) Radar satellites: mountains to molehills. Nature 446:22–23

A journal article with 2 authors

Attrill MJ, Power M (2002) Climatic influence on a marine fish assemblage. Nature 417:275–278

A journal article with 3 authors

Haig J, Nott J, Reichart G-J (2014) Australian tropical cyclone activity lower than at any time over the past 550-1,500 years. Nature 505:667–671

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gill SR, Pop M, Deboy RT, et al (2006) Metagenomic analysis of the human distal gut microbiome. Science 312:1355–1359

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spiegel R (2005) Psychopharmacology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Croker A, Higgs J, Trede F (eds) (2016) Collaborating in Healthcare: Reinterpreting Therapeutic Relationships. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Pamies-Rovira J (2012) Moroccan Immigrants at a Secondary School in Catalonia. In: Spinthourakis JA, Lalor J, Berg W (eds) Cultural Diversity in the Classroom: A European Comparison. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, pp 79–94

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

Andrew E (2014) Mysterious Disease Has Been Devastating Starfish. In: IFLScience. 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 (1996) Federal R&D Laboratories. 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

Huynhle M (2017) High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Increases Resilience against Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection in Drosophila Larvae. 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

Mullen MG (2017) The Refugees We Need. New York Times A25

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Attrill and Power 2002; Schiermeier 2007).

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

Two authors: (Attrill and Power 2002)
Three or more authors: (Gill et al. 2006)

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

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