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

Bell, J., 2002. Planetary science. Tip of the Martian iceberg? Science 297, 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holman, M.J., Murray, N.W., 2005. The use of transit timing to detect terrestrial-mass extrasolar planets. Science 307, 1288–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lohman, D.J., Bickford, D., Sodhi, N.S., 2007. Environment. The burning issue. Science 316, 376.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Passafaro, M., Nakagawa, T., Sala, C., Sheng, M., 2003. Induction of dendritic spines by an extracellular domain of AMPA receptor subunit GluR2. Nature 424, 677–681.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli, D., 2005. Nanotechnology Applications to Telecommunications and Networking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fritsche-Neto, R., Borém, A. (Eds.), 2012. Plant Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, C., Wang, W., Wang, X., 2016. Efficient Maximum Closeness Centrality Group Identification, in: Cheema, M.A., Zhang, W., Chang, L. (Eds.), Databases Theory and Applications: 27th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2016, Sydney, NSW, September 28-29, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–55.

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. World’s Largest Wasp Nest Found In Tasmania [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2014. Space Acquisitions: Acquisition Management Continues to Improve but Challenges Persist for Current and Future Programs (No. GAO-14-382T). 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

Choi, K.K., 2010. Conspiracy and alternative crimes in the Military Commissions Act of 2009: Is There a Way Out? (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Protess, B., Apuzzo, M., 2017. Tougher on Corporate Crime. For Now. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bell, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bell, 2002; Holman and Murray, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Holman and Murray, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Passafaro et al., 2003)

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