How to format your references using the Meteorological Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Meteorological Applications. 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

Meyer-Lindenberg A. 2008. Psychology. Trust me on this. Science 321:778–780.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smethurst DP., Williams HC. 2001. Power laws. Are hospital waiting lists self-regulating? Nature 410:652–653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maduwage K., O’Leary MA., Isbister GK. 2014. Diagnosis of snake envenomation using a simple phospholipase A2 assay. Sci. Rep. 4:4827.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Favors Z., Wang W., Bay HH., Mutlu Z., Ahmed K., Liu C., Ozkan M., Ozkan CS. 2014. Scalable synthesis of nano-silicon from beach sand for long cycle life Li-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 4:5623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yang S., Xu J-X., Li X., Shen D. 2017. Iterative Learning Control for Multi-agent Systems Coordination. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Duncan GT. 2011. Statistical Confidentiality: Principles and Practice. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wawrzik T., Ludwig F., Schilling M. 2012. Magnetic Particle Imaging: Exploring Particle Mobility. In: Buzug TM, Borgert J eds. Magnetic Particle Imaging: A Novel SPIO Nanoparticle Imaging Technique. Springer Proceedings in Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 21–25.

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 Meteorological Applications.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2015.Sitting Might Not Be That Bad For You After All. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sitting-wont-kill-you-after-all/ (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. 1992. Government Civil Aircraft: Longstanding Management Problems. 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

Thomas LE. 2017. Youth Art Ambassadors: A Youth Participatory Action Research Project Using Social Justice to Incite Change in Classrooms where Teachers Teach Young People of Color. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Robertson C. 2017. No Stranger to Flooding, One Town Suffers Again. New York Times:A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meyer-Lindenberg, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Smethurst & Williams, 2001; Meyer-Lindenberg, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Smethurst & Williams, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Favors et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Meteorological Applications
Abbreviation	Meteorol. Appl.
ISSN (print)	1350-4827
ISSN (online)	1469-8080
Scope	Atmospheric Science