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

Ostrom, E., 2009: A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems. Science, 325, 419–422.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soutoglou, E., and I. Talianidis, 2002: Coordination of PIC assembly and chromatin remodeling during differentiation-induced gene activation. Science, 295, 1901–1904.

A journal article with 3 authors

Healy, L. L., J. G. Cronin, and I. M. Sheldon, 2014: Endometrial cells sense and react to tissue damage during infection of the bovine endometrium via interleukin 1. Sci. Rep., 4, 7060.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Croxall, J. P., J. R. D. Silk, R. A. Phillips, V. Afanasyev, and D. R. Briggs, 2005: Global circumnavigations: tracking year-round ranges of nonbreeding albatrosses. Science, 307, 249–250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthier, J., K. A. Brakke, and E. Berthier, 2016: Open Microfluidics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Austin, B., 2016: Bacterial Fish Pathogens: Disease of Farmed and Wild Fish. 6th ed. 2016. D.A. Austin, Ed. Springer International Publishing, XXXV, 732 p. 48 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Dietrich, F., J. Maaß, C. Bier, I. Pietsch, A. Raatz, and J. Hesselbach, 2011: Detection and Avoidance of Singularities in Parallel Kinematic Machines. Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly, D. Schütz and F.M. Wahl, Eds., Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, 77–92.

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

Andrews, R., 2017: Cyborg Roses Could Be Used To Grow Computer Systems. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/cyborg-roses-used-grow-computer-systems/ (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, 1973: In-Flight Escape Systems for Helicopters Should Be Developed To Prevent Fatalities. 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

Chapman, T. W., 2017: Evaluating the δ13C Value of n-Alkanes as a Recorder of Atmospheric Chemistry. University of Louisiana, .

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., 2017: Licensing Accord Eases Spotify’s Path to Going Public. New York Times, April 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ostrom 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Ostrom 2009; Soutoglou and Talianidis 2002).

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

Two authors: (Soutoglou and Talianidis 2002)
Three or more authors: (Croxall et al. 2005)

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