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

Fleming, N., 2013: Tell fans definitive calls are an impossible goal. Nature, 497, 537.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rohwer, F., and R. V. Thurber, 2009: Viruses manipulate the marine environment. Nature, 459, 207–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Opher, M., E. C. Stone, and T. I. Gombosi, 2007: The orientation of the local interstellar magnetic field. Science, 316, 875–878.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Mischenko, A. S., Q. Zhang, J. F. Scott, R. W. Whatmore, and N. D. Mathur, 2006: Giant electrocaloric effect in thin-film PbZr(0.95)Ti(0.05)O3. Science, 311, 1270–1271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sundararajan, D., 2015: Discretewavelet Transform. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd,.

An edited book

Sun, F., D. Hu, and H. Liu, eds., 2014: Foundations and Practical Applications of Cognitive Systems and Information Processing: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing, Beijing, China, Dec 2012 (CSIP2012). Springer, XX, 885 p. 404 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, D., J. Zhai, H. Zhu, and X. Wang, 2014: An Improved Approach to Ordinal Classification. Machine Learning and Cybernetics: 13th International Conference, Lanzhou, China, July 13-16, 2014. Proceedings, X. Wang, W. Pedrycz, P. Chan, and Q. He, Eds., Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer, 33–42.

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

Andrew, E., 2014: Researchers Boost Memory Using Magnetic Stimulation. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-boost-memory-using-magnetic-stimulation/ (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, 2013: Status of the Department of Education’s Inventory of Its Data Collections. 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

Pease, M., 2014: Progress towards the Synthesis of a Potent, Bioavailable and Selective Dimethylarginine Dimethylaminohydrolase-1 Inactivator. Southern Illinois 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., 2003: A New Glasnost On War’s Looted Art. New York Times, March 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fleming 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Fleming 2013; Rohwer and Thurber 2009).

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

Two authors: (Rohwer and Thurber 2009)
Three or more authors: (Mischenko et al. 2006)

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