How to format your references using the Meteorological Monographs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Meteorological Monographs. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Felten, D. L., 2006: IRBs: going too far or not far enough? Science, 313, 1388–1389; author reply 1388-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Siders, C. W., and A. Cavalleri, 2003: Materials science. Creating transient crystal structures with light. Science, 300, 591–592.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chisholm, S. W., P. G. Falkowski, and J. J. Cullen, 2001: Oceans. Dis-crediting ocean fertilization. Science, 294, 309–310.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Litingtung, Y., R. D. Dahn, Y. Li, J. F. Fallon, and C. Chiang, 2002: Shh and Gli3 are dispensable for limb skeleton formation but regulate digit number and identity. Nature, 418, 979–983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moritz, F. G., 2013: Electromechanical Motion Systems. John Wiley & Sons Ltd,.

An edited book

Fleming, S. M., and C. D. Frith, eds., 2014: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Metacognition. Springer, VIII, 407 p. 63 illus., 30 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Thaman, K. H., 2007: Partnerships for Progressing Cultural Democracy in Teacher Education in Pacific Island Countries. Handbook of Teacher Education, T. Townsend and R. Bates, Eds., Springer Netherlands, 53–66.

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 Monographs.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015: Algae Blooms Alter Nitrogen And Phosphorus Cycles In Lakes To Their Benefit. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/algal-blooms-change-lakes-their-liking/ (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, 1993: Air Traffic Control: Justifications for Capital Investments Need Strengthening. 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

Heyen, C., 2015: Two predictors of smoking behaviors in the LGBTQ population: Anxiety and internalized homophobia. 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

Blinder, A., and D. Philipps, 2017: Marine Crash Victims: Young Fathers, a Humming Sergeant, a Proud Texan. New York Times, July 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Felten 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Felten 2006; Siders and Cavalleri 2003).

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

Two authors: (Siders and Cavalleri 2003)
Three or more authors: (Litingtung et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Meteorological Monographs
Abbreviation	Meteorol. Monogr.
ISSN (print)	0065-9401
Scope