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

Janson, S.: Computer science. Networking--smoothly does it. Science. 333, 298–299 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Frazzetta, T.H., Kardong, K.V.: Biomechanics (Communication arising): prey attack by a large theropod dinosaur. Nature. 416, 387–388 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Voog, J., D’Alterio, C., Jones, D.L.: Multipotent somatic stem cells contribute to the stem cell niche in the Drosophila testis. Nature. 454, 1132–1136 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Beaugrand, G., Brander, K.M., Alistair Lindley, J., Souissi, S., Reid, P.C.: Plankton effect on cod recruitment in the North Sea. Nature. 426, 661–664 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, D.: Reading Paradise Lost. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford (2013)

An edited book

Zimmer, J. ed: Natural Killer Cells: At the Forefront of Modern Immunology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Falzon, K., Bodden, E.: Dynamically Provisioning Isolation in Hierarchical Architectures. In: Lopez, J. and Mitchell, C.J. (eds.) Information Security: 18th International Conference, ISC 2015, Trondheim, Norway, September 9-11, 2015, Proceedings. pp. 83–101. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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

Luntz, S.: Artificial Photosynthesis Yields Valuable Chemicals, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/artificial-photosynthesis-yields-chemical-riches/

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: Tax Systems Modernization: Comments on IRS’ Portion of President’s Request for Fiscal Year 1993 Supplemental Funds. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Learn, D.T.: Differentiating instruction on the basis of cognitive tools: A case study of honors and mainstream middle school classes, (2012)

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

Sisario, B.: Reaching No.1 On the Billboard Charts, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Janson 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Frazzetta and Kardong 2002; Janson 2011).

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

Two authors: (Frazzetta and Kardong 2002)
Three or more authors: (Beaugrand et al. 2003)

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