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

Guston, D. H., 2008: Innovation policy: not just a jumbo shrimp. Nature, 454, 940–941.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elsner, C., and B. Abel, 2014: Ultrafast high-resolution mass spectrometric finger pore imaging in latent finger prints. Sci. Rep., 4, 6905.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heuberger, M., M. Zäch, and N. D. Spencer, 2001: Density fluctuations under confinement: when is a fluid not a fluid? Science, 292, 905–908.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Li, M.-X., Z.-Q. Jiang, W.-J. Xie, S. Miccichè, M. Tumminello, W.-X. Zhou, and R. N. Mantegna, 2014: A comparative analysis of the statistical properties of large mobile phone calling networks. Sci. Rep., 4, 5132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belliotti, R. A., 2011: Dante’s Deadly Sins. Wiley-Blackwell,.

An edited book

Eilks, I., and A. Hofstein, eds., 2013: Teaching Chemistry – A Studybook: A Practical Guide and Textbook for Student Teachers, Teacher Trainees and Teachers. SensePublishers, XIV, 336 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Dreger, A. D., 2006: Intersex and Human Rights: The Long View. Ethics and Intersex, S.E. Sytsma, Ed., International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine, Springer Netherlands, 73–86.

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

Andrew, E., 2015: There Is Water On Mars, But What Does This Mean For Life? IFLScience,. (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, 2008: Native Hawaiian Education Act: Greater Oversight Would Increase Accountability and Enable Targeting of Funds to Areas with Greatest Need. 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

Nelson, J.-M. C., 2008: The effect of class size on a teacher’s job satisfaction in a southeastern urban LEA. University of North Carolina, .

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

Dwyer, J., 2015: A Police Shot to a Boy’s Back, Echoing Since ’73. New York Times, April 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guston 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Guston 2008; Elsner and Abel 2014).

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

Two authors: (Elsner and Abel 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

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