How to format your references using the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 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

Peitgen, H.-O., 2010: Retrospective. Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924-2010). Science, 330, 926.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawatani, Y., and K. Hamilton, 2013: Weakened stratospheric quasibiennial oscillation driven by increased tropical mean upwelling. Nature, 497, 478–481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palmer, M. J., F. Fukuyama, and D. A. Relman, 2015: SCIENCE GOVERNANCE. A more systematic approach to biological risk. Science, 350, 1471–1473.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Sharot, T., A. M. Riccardi, C. M. Raio, and E. A. Phelps, 2007: Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias. Nature, 450, 102–105.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sutt, J., I. Lill, and O. Müürsepp, 2013: The Engineer’s Manual of Construction Site Planning. John Wiley & Sons,.

An edited book

Azarnoosh, M., M. Zeraatpishe, A. Faravani, and H. R. Kargozari, eds., 2016: Issues in Materials Development. SensePublishers, Approx. 235 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Benjamas, N., and P. Uthayopas, 2009: An Impact of Scheduling Strategy to Parallel FI-Growth Data Mining Algorithm. Advances in Information Technology: Third International Conference, IAIT 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, December 1-5, 2009. Proceedings, B. Papasratorn, W. Chutimaskul, K. Porkaew, and V. Vanijja, Eds., Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, 39–47.

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 Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015: Check Out This Previously Unreleased Footage Of Nuclear Bomb Tests. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/never-seen-video-nuclear-bomb-tests/ (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, 1996: School Facilities: Profiles of School Condition by State. 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

Do, N. H., 2012: An examination of support systems to enable Vietnamese immigrants to acquire English skills. University of Phoenix, .

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

Gustines, G. G., 2011: It Came From the Suburbs: New Life for a Swamp Creature. New York Times, September 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peitgen 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Peitgen 2010; Kawatani and Hamilton 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kawatani and Hamilton 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sharot et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
Abbreviation	J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0739-0572
ISSN (online)	1520-0426
Scope	Atmospheric Science Ocean Engineering