How to format your references using the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 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. (2000). Developing countries and poorest people targeted by UN centre. Nature, 408(6813), 754.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, L. D. S., & Jameson, S. C. (2009). Immunology. A chronic need for IL-21. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5934), 1525–1526.

A journal article with 3 authors

Della Negra, M., Jenni, P., & Virdee, T. S. (2012). Journey in the search for the Higgs boson: the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6114), 1560–1568.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Benson, D. E., Conrad, D. W., de Lorimier, R. M., Trammell, S. A., & Hellinga, H. W. (2001). Design of bioelectronic interfaces by exploiting hinge-bending motions in proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5535), 1641–1644.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Courant, R., & McShane, E. J. (1988). Differential and Integral Calculus. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Huang, F., & Sugimoto, A. (Eds.). (2014). Image and Video Technology – PSIVT 2013 Workshops: GCCV 2013, GPID 2013, PAESNPR 2013, and QACIVA 2013, Guanajuato, Mexico, October 28-29, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8334). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nikookar, H., & Prasad, R. (2009). Ultra Wide Band Wireless Channels. In R. Prasad (Ed.), Introduction to Ultra Wideband for Wireless Communications (pp. 43–65). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016, November 24). Astonishing Planetary System Orbits A Star Very Like The Sun. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/astonishing-planetary-system-orbits-a-star-very-like-the-sun/

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. (1989). Reports Issued in July 1989 (No. 139352). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hsieh, D. A. (2019). Informed Technology Adoption Decisions Based on Innovation-Related Factors (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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, August 31). Citing Storm, Puerto Rico Delays Plan. New York Times, p. B5.

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; Johnson & Jameson, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Johnson & Jameson, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Benson et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Abbreviation	J. Geophys. Res.
ISSN (print)	2169-897X
ISSN (online)	2169-8996
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