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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 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	Download the output style file
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

Andersen, B., 2005: Space science. Crossroad for European space activity. Science, 307, 1206.

A journal article with 2 authors

McLennan, M. R., and K. J. Hockings, 2014: Wild chimpanzees show group differences in selection of agricultural crops. Sci. Rep., 4, 5956.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mulligan, C. J., A. Kitchen, and M. M. Miyamoto, 2006: Comment on “Population size does not influence mitochondrial genetic diversity in animals.” Science, 314, 1390.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Haag-Liautard, C., M. Dorris, X. Maside, S. Macaskill, D. L. Halligan, D. Houle, B. Charlesworth, and P. D. Keightley, 2007: Direct estimation of per nucleotide and genomic deleterious mutation rates in Drosophila. Nature, 445, 82–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Caltagirone, J.-P., 2015: Discrete Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Veeravalli, B., 2006: Distributed Multimedia Retrieval Strategies for Large Scale Networked Systems. G. Barlas, Ed. Springer US, XXVIII, 268 p. 92 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Dredge, D., 2015: Tourism and Governance. Education for Sustainability in Tourism: A Handbook of Processes, Resources, and Strategies, G. Moscardo and P. Benckendorff, Eds., CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Springer, 75–90.

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 the Atmospheric Sciences.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016: No New Particles But Hundreds Of Results Announced By CERN. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/no-new-particles-but-hundreds-of-results-announced-by-cern/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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, 1987: Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No. 9. 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

Borisova-Kidder, A., 2006: Meta-Analytical Estimates of Values of Environmental Services Enhanced by Government Agricultural Conservation Programs. Ohio State University, .

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

Kishkovsky, S., 2015: Russian Publisher Adds Its Own Slant, Writers Say. New York Times, August 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Andersen 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Andersen 2005; McLennan and Hockings 2014).

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

Two authors: (McLennan and Hockings 2014)
Three or more authors: (Haag-Liautard et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Atmos. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0022-4928
ISSN (online)	1520-0469
Scope	Atmospheric Science