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

Zimmerman, E., 2004: Recruiters and academia. Nature, 431, 1022.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mota, B., and S. Herculano-Houzel, 2015: BRAIN STRUCTURE. Cortical folding scales universally with surface area and thickness, not number of neurons. Science, 349, 74–77.

A journal article with 3 authors

Phillips, B. L., W. H. Casey, and M. Karlsson, 2000: Bonding and reactivity at oxide mineral surfaces from model aqueous complexes. Nature, 404, 379–382.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Quinn, A. E., A. Georges, S. D. Sarre, F. Guarino, T. Ezaz, and J. A. M. Graves, 2007: Temperature sex reversal implies sex gene dosage in a reptile. Science, 316, 411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D. A., 2014: Interpreting Land Records. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Cress, U., J. Moskaliuk, and H. Jeong, eds., 2016: Mass Collaboration and Education. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, VII, 411 p. 69 illus., 36 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Krause, O., and S. Lehnhoff, 2011: Load Flow with Uncertain Loading and Generation in Future Smart Grids. Soft Computing in Green and Renewable Energy Systems, K. Gopalakrishnan, S.K. Khaitan, and S. Kalogirou, Eds., Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Springer, 117–156.

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

Davis, J., 2015: Scientists Watch As Wasps Diverge To Become Separate Species. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-watch-wasps-diverge-become-separate-species/ (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, 1996: State Infrastructure Banks: A Mechanism to Expand Federal Transportation Financing. 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

Marcheschi, R. L., 2010: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding individuals with epilepsy by marriage and family therapists and social workers. 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

Vanderwoude, M., 2016: Odd Question From a Man of God. New York Times, June 28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zimmerman 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Zimmerman 2004; Mota and Herculano-Houzel 2015).

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

Two authors: (Mota and Herculano-Houzel 2015)
Three or more authors: (Quinn et al. 2007)

About the journal

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