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

Mirabel, I. F., 2006: Astronomy. Very energetic gamma-rays from microquasars and binary pulsars. Science, 312, 1759–1760.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atatüre, M., and J. J. L. Morton, 2014: Quantum information. A gem of a quantum teleporter. Science, 345, 510–511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buckling, A., M. A. Wills, and N. Colegrave, 2003: Adaptation limits diversification of experimental bacterial populations. Science, 302, 2107–2109.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

van Zoest, T., and Coauthors, 2010: Bose-Einstein condensation in microgravity. Science, 328, 1540–1543.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

You, H., X. Jianjuan, and G. Xin, 2016: Radar Data Processing with Applications. John Wiley &;#38; Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd,.

An edited book

Haslam, I. R., and M. S. Khine, eds., 2016: Leveraging Social Capital in Systemic Education Reform. SensePublishers, VI, 166 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ďurisová, L., and H. Asche, 2009: Mapping Land Cover with Commercial and Freeware Image Classification Software – An Example from Bavaria, Germany. Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe: CEE 2009, G. Gartner and F. Ortag, Eds., Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer, 77–87.

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., 2014: Top 10 Cute Animals That Can Kill You. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/top-10-cute-animals-can-kill-you/ (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, 2005: Passenger Rail Security: Enhanced Federal Leadership Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts. 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

Hogg, J. H., 2014: An assessment of social vulnerability in Yuba County, California. 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

Stewart, J. B., 2016: Why a Merger of Media Firms That Should Be a Sure Bet Isn’t. New York Times, October 25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mirabel 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Mirabel 2006; Atatüre and Morton 2014).

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

Two authors: (Atatüre and Morton 2014)
Three or more authors: (van Zoest et al. 2010)

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