How to format your references using the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry citation style

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

Gershon, D.: Developing countries and poorest people targeted by UN centre. Nature. 408, 754 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Sprangers, R., Kay, L.E.: Quantitative dynamics and binding studies of the 20S proteasome by NMR. Nature. 445, 618–622 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, K.H., Penmatsa, A., Gouaux, E.: Neurotransmitter and psychostimulant recognition by the dopamine transporter. Nature. 521, 322–327 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Santori, C., Fattal, D., Vucković, J., Solomon, G.S., Yamamoto, Y.: Indistinguishable photons from a single-photon device. Nature. 419, 594–597 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cauvin, C., Escobar, F., Serradj, A.: New Approaches in Thematic Cartography. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Koenig, H.G.: Health and Well-Being in Islamic Societies: Background, Research, and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Kurtenbach, S., Mannheim, T., Hüsing, M., Corves, B.: Content and Realization of Education in Mechanism Theory at RWTH Aachen University. In: García-Prada, J.C. and Castejón, C. (eds.) New Trends in Educational Activity in the Field of Mechanism and Machine Theory. pp. 39–46. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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 Chemistry.

Blog post

Hale, T.: This Plug-In Lets You See How Much Information Facebook Has On You, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-plug-in-lets-you-see-how-much-information-facebook-has-on-you/

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: Need To Improve Management of ACDA’s Automatic Data Processing and Operations Analysis Functions. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1983)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hughes, L.L.: The principalship: Preparation programs and the self-efficacy of principals, (2010)

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

Billard, M.: If Your Boyfriend Is Metrosexual, (2010)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2000; Sprangers and Kay 2007).

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

Two authors: (Sprangers and Kay 2007)
Three or more authors: (Santori et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Atmos. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0167-7764
ISSN (online)	1573-0662
Scope	Atmospheric Science Environmental Chemistry