How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kong, X., 2014: China must protect high-quality arable land. Nature, 506, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chan, Y.-H. M., and W. F. Marshall, 2012: How cells know the size of their organelles. Science, 337, 1186–1189.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKinnon, L., E. Nol, and C. Juillet, 2013: Arctic-nesting birds find physiological relief in the face of trophic constraints. Sci. Rep., 3, 1816.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Barbieri, I., and Coauthors, 2017: Promoter-bound METTL3 maintains myeloid leukaemia by m6A-dependent translation control. Nature, 552, 126–131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cook, M., 2008: Personnel Selection. Wiley-Blackwell,.

An edited book

Prade, H., and G. Richard, eds., 2014: Computational Approaches to Analogical Reasoning: Current Trends. Springer, X, 395 p. 105 illus., 18 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Nesterenko, M. V., V. A. Katrich, Y. M. Penkin, and S. L. Berdnik, 2011: Electromagnetic Waves Scattering by Irregular Impedance Vibrators in Free Space. Thin Impedance Vibrators: Theory and Applications, V.A. Katrich, Y.M. Penkin, V.M. Dakhov, and S.L. Berdnik, Eds., Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, 93–112.

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 Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015: Survival of the Fittest: How Brain Tumours Adapt Through Complex Ecosystems. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/survival-fittest-how-brain-tumours-adapt-through-complex-ecosystems/ (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, 1977: Review of Several Aspects of the Internal Revenue Service’s Proposed Computerized Tax Administration System. 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

Galan, M., 2012: Educational practices to support homeless students. 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

Koblin, J., 2017: At the Emmys, a Night of Politics and Trump. New York Times, September 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kong 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Kong 2014; Chan and Marshall 2012).

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

Two authors: (Chan and Marshall 2012)
Three or more authors: (Barbieri et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol.
ISSN (print)	1558-8424
ISSN (online)	1558-8432
Scope	Atmospheric Science