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

Reedijk, J., 2005: Chemistry. Dioxygen surprises. Science, 308, 1876–1877.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cohen, J. E., and R. E. Gürtler, 2001: Modeling household transmission of American trypanosomiasis. Science, 293, 694–698.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haskell, J. P., M. E. Ritchie, and H. Olff, 2002: Fractal geometry predicts varying body size scaling relationships for mammal and bird home ranges. Nature, 418, 527–530.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Chen, A., and Coauthors, 2014: Evolution of microstructure, strain and physical properties in oxide nanocomposite films. Sci. Rep., 4, 5426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ness, L., 2006: Securing Utility and Energy Infrastructures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Lita da Silva, J., F. Caeiro, I. Natário, and C. A. Braumann, eds., 2013: Advances in Regression, Survival Analysis, Extreme Values, Markov Processes and Other Statistical Applications. Springer, XVII, 471 p. 92 illus., 13 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Shirouzu, H., 2013: Learning Fractions Through Folding in an Elementary Face-to-Face Classroom. Productive Multivocality in the Analysis of Group Interactions, D.D. Suthers, K. Lund, C.P. Rosé, C. Teplovs, and N. Law, Eds., Springer US, 63–101.

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

Luntz, S., 2014: Group Files Lawsuit Against Kansas For Teaching Science In Science Class. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/science-curriculum-back-kansas-courtrooms/ (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, 2003: Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA’s Financial Management Modernization. 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

Pham, M. M.-X., 2017: Flymed Pharmacy, LLC, Home Delivery Services a Business Plan. 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

Ruiz, R. R., and B. Rothenberg, 2016: Exceptions for Drugs Fall Under Scrutiny. New York Times, September 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reedijk 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Reedijk 2005; Cohen and Gürtler 2001).

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

Two authors: (Cohen and Gürtler 2001)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

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