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

Marec, F., 2014: Developmental genetics: Female silkworms have the sex factor. Nature, 509, 570–571.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andersson, C., and D. Read, 2014: Group size and cultural complexity. Nature, 511, E1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hwang, T. J., D. Carpenter, and A. S. Kesselheim, 2014: Target small firms for antibiotic innovation. Science, 344, 967–969.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Moreau, J. W., P. K. Weber, M. C. Martin, B. Gilbert, I. D. Hutcheon, and J. F. Banfield, 2007: Extracellular proteins limit the dispersal of biogenic nanoparticles. Science, 316, 1600–1603.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Münch, V., 2009: Patente, Marken, Design von A bis Z. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH,.

An edited book

Meusburger, P., M. Welker, and E. Wunder, eds., 2008: Clashes of Knowledge: Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion. Springer Netherlands, VIII, 230 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Christinal, H. A., A. Berciano, D. Díaz-Pernil, and M. A. Gutiérrez-Naranjo, 2014: Searching Partially Bounded Regions with P Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving: SocProS 2013, Volume 1, M. Pant, K. Deep, A. Nagar, and J.C. Bansal, Eds., Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer India, 45–54.

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

Luntz, S., 2017: Brain Scans Show Tasmanian Tigers Were Smart, But That Still Didn’t Save Them. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brain-scans-show-tasmanian-tigers-were-smart-but-that-still-didnt-save-them/ (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: Status and Issues Pertaining to the Proposed Development of the Space Telescope Project. 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

Cole, K. W., 2010: Principal investigator and department administrator perceptions of services provided by Offices of Research Administration at research universities. University of South Florida, .

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

Barron, J., 2016: A Museum Rights Its Course as Its Flagship Returns. New York Times, September 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marec 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Marec 2014; Andersson and Read 2014).

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

Two authors: (Andersson and Read 2014)
Three or more authors: (Moreau et al. 2007)

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