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

Willems, J., 2003: Bringing down the barriers. Nature, 422, 470.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, H.-Y., and C. C. Malbon, 2003: Wnt signaling, Ca2+, and cyclic GMP: visualizing Frizzled functions. Science, 300, 1529–1530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eccleston, A., F. Cesari, and M. Skipper, 2013: Transcription and epigenetics. Nature, 502, 461.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Tegus, O., E. Brück, K. H. J. Buschow, and F. R. de Boer, 2002: Transition-metal-based magnetic refrigerants for room-temperature applications. Nature, 415, 150–152.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olofsson, P., 2014: Probabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc,.

An edited book

Linte, C. A., E. C. S. Chen, M.-O. Berger, J. T. Moore, and D. R. Holmes, eds., 2013: Augmented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions: 7th International Workshop, AE-CAI 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 5, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, XII, 179 p. 120 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

El-Metwally, S., O. M. Ouda, and M. Helmy, 2014: Challenges in the Next-Generation Sequencing Field. Next Generation Sequencing Technologies and Challenges in Sequence Assembly, O.M. Ouda and M. Helmy, Eds., SpringerBriefs in Systems Biology, Springer, 45–49.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2015: Scientists Find Something Very Bizarre Behind Pluto. 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, 1983: [Perspectives on Evaluating Federally Sponsored Research and Development in the United States]. 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

Jozwiak, A. L., 2012: Social work internship stipend program: A grant proposal. 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

Lear, S., 2011: Beyond the Edge of the World. New York Times, January 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willems 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Willems 2003; Wang and Malbon 2003).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Malbon 2003)
Three or more authors: (Tegus et al. 2002)

About the journal

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

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