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

McGraw, R. (2004). Humidity, ice, and nitric acid. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5673), 961–3; author reply 961-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piketty, T., & Saez, E. (2014). Inequality in the long run. Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6186), 838–843.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laporte, S. A., Oakley, R. H., & Caron, M. G. (2001). Signal transduction. Bringing channels closer to the action! Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5527), 62–63.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tanaka, M., Chien, P., Naber, N., Cooke, R., & Weissman, J. S. (2004). Conformational variations in an infectious protein determine prion strain differences. Nature, 428(6980), 323–328.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pratt, T. H. (2010). Electrostatic Ignitions of Fires and Explosions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cui, C., Grandison, L., & Noronha, A. (Eds.). (2013). Neural-Immune Interactions in Brain Function and Alcohol Related Disorders. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Ferdous, A., Shahin, M. A., & Ali, M. A. (2014). Time Series Model Building and Forecasting on Maximum Temperature Data. In T. Islam, P. K. Srivastava, M. Gupta, X. Zhu, & S. Mukherjee (Eds.), Computational Intelligence Techniques in Earth and Environmental Sciences (pp. 79–91). 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

Andrew, E. (2016, May 13). Why The Eastern Coyote Should Be A Separate Species: The “Coywolf’. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-eastern-coyote-should-be-separate-species-coywolf/

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. (1998). FCC: Service and Auction Rules for the 38.6-40.0 GHz Frequency Band (No. OGC-98-29). 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

Walker, M. (2009). Industry - higher education partnerships: A case study analysis of learning together (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Kelly, S. (2004, October 17). Annie, Get Your Calculator. New York Times, p. 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGraw, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (McGraw, 2004; Piketty & Saez, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Piketty & Saez, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka et al., 2004)

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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