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

Zimmer C. 2004. Beyond the ivory tower. A distant mirror for the brain. Science 303:43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Griffin AS., West SA. 2003. Kin discrimination and the benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Science 302:634–636.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen BA., Hewins RH., Yu Y. 2000. Evaporation in the young solar nebula as the origin of “just-right” melting of chondrules. Nature 406:600–602.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roldán-Vargas S., Smallenburg F., Kob W., Sciortino F. 2013. Gelling by heating. Sci. Rep. 3:2451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan CT., Hwang YM., Lin L., Chen Y-C. 2014. Design and Fabrication of Self-Powered Micro-Harvesters. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Schultheiss H-P., Noutsias M. (eds.) 2010. Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy (DCMi): Pathogenesis and Therapy. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Dhanireddy S., Maghsoudlou A., Preble JM., Ratwatte MD., Foster CS. 2016. Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid. In: Sami N ed. Autoimmune Bullous Diseases: Approach and Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 75–97.

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

Andrew D. 2016.Five Amazing Ways Plants Have Created New Technologies. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/five-amazing-ways-plants-have-created-new-technologies/ (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. 1991. Air Traffic Control: Voice Communications System Challenges Continue. 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

Currano LJ. 2010. Latching microelectromechanical shock sensor systems: Design, modeling, and experiments. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Walsh MW. 2011. Illinois Plan For Pensions Questioned. New York Times:B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zimmer, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Griffin & West, 2003; Zimmer, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Griffin & West, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Roldán-Vargas et al., 2013)

About the journal

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