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

Campbell, G.: Distalization of the Drosophila leg by graded EGF-receptor activity. Nature. 418, 781–785 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Klausberger, T., Somogyi, P.: Neuronal diversity and temporal dynamics: the unity of hippocampal circuit operations. Science. 321, 53–57 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, S., Zhou, Z., Greenberg, M.E.: Medicine. Activating a repressor. Science. 320, 1172–1173 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Zhan, Y., Zhang, D., Dai, B., Ma, W., Qi, J., Liu, R., He, L.: Eupolyphaga sinensis walker displays inhibition on hepatocellular carcinoma through regulating cell growth and metastasis signaling. Sci. Rep. 4, 5518 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gramß, T., Bornholdt, S., Groß, M., Mitchell, M., Pellizzari, T.: Non-Standard Computation. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2005)

An edited book

Kislyakov, S.: Extremal Problems in Interpolation Theory, Whitney-Besicovitch Coverings, and Singular Integrals. Springer, Basel (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Daun, M., Weyer, T., Pohl, K.: Detecting and Correcting Outdated Requirements in Function-Centered Engineering of Embedded Systems. In: Fricker, S.A. and Schneider, K. (eds.) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 21st International Working Conference, REFSQ 2015, Essen, Germany, March 23-26, 2015. Proceedings. pp. 65–80. 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

Andrews, R.: Scientists Finally Unravel Hawaii’s Bizarre Origin Story, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-finally-unravel-hawaiis-bizarre-origin-story/

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: Proposed Facility Requirements for the National Center for Toxicological Research and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1977)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson, L.: A cross-cultural examination of the needs and behaviors of female caregivers of cancer patients at the end of life: A theoretical elaboration, (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

Poniewozik, J.: Where the Rogue Cop Rules, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Campbell 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Campbell 2002; Klausberger and Somogyi 2008).

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

Two authors: (Klausberger and Somogyi 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

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