How to format your references using the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 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

Robinson, G.E., 2015. EVOLUTION. Dissecting diversity in the social brain. Science 350, 1310–1312.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schier, A.F., Shen, M.M., 2000. Nodal signalling in vertebrate development. Nature 403, 385–389.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mason, N., Biercuk, M.J., Marcus, C.M., 2004. Local gate control of a carbon nanotube double quantum dot. Science 303, 655–658.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chelton, D.B., Schlax, M.G., Freilich, M.H., Milliff, R.F., 2004. Satellite measurements reveal persistent small-scale features in ocean winds. Science 303, 978–983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caferro, W., 2010. Contesting the Renaissance. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Liamputtong, P. (Ed.), 2013. Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Martínez, M.C., Armengot, L., Marquès-Bueno, M.M., 2013. Regulation of Polar Auxin Transport by Protein Phosphorylation, in: Chen, R., Baluška, F. (Eds.), Polar Auxin Transport, Signaling and Communication in Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 81–101.

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 Solar-Terrestrial Physics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Oldest Known Message-In-A-Bottle Found [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oldest-floating-message-found/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2008. Status of Implementation of GAO Recommendations on Evacuation of Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations and Patients and Residents of Health Care Facilities (No. GAO-08-544R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Carpenter, D.M., 2009. Understanding the effect of conflicting information on medication adherence for vasculitis patients (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Hu, W., Singer, J.E., 2017. To Immigrants Dollar Stores Are a Step Up. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Robinson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Robinson, 2015; Schier and Shen, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Schier and Shen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chelton et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Abbreviation	J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1364-6826
Scope	Atmospheric Science Geophysics Space and Planetary Science