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

Brock JD. 2007. Chemistry. Watching atoms move. Science 315:609–610.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zahn LM., Travis J. 2015. Mutation and Human Disease. Hunting Mutations, Targeting Disease. Introduction. Science 349:1470–1471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hahnloser RHR., Kozhevnikov AA., Fee MS. 2002. An ultra-sparse code underlies the generation of neural sequences in a songbird. Nature 419:65–70.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Buckley NJ., Johnson R., Sun Y-M., Stanton LW. 2009. Is REST a regulator of pluripotency? Nature 457:E5-6; discussion E7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spence R. 2008. Introductory Circuits. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bonnelle C. 2015. Rare-Earths and Actinides in High Energy Spectroscopy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Mayor G., Recasens J. 2010. Finitely Valued Indistinguishability Operators. In: Hüllermeier E, Kruse R, Hoffmann F eds. Computational Intelligence for Knowledge-Based Systems Design: 13th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty, IPMU 2010, Dortmund, Germany, June 28 - July 2, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 39–48.

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.We Need Clear Rules To Avoid A Real Star Wars In Outer Space. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-need-clear-rules-to-avoid-a-real-star-wars-in-outer-space/ (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. 1977. Curriculum Case Studies Are of Questionable Quality but Helped Precollege Curriculum Activities. 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

Yi Z. 2009. Dynamics of bio-membranes investigated by neutron spin echo: Effects of phospholipid conformations and presence of lidocaine. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Greenhouse L. 2008. Justices Block New Hearing for Mexican. New York Times:A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brock, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brock, 2007; Zahn & Travis, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zahn & Travis, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Buckley et al., 2009)

About the journal

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

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