How to format your references using the Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 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

Roelfsema PR (2011) Neuroscience. Attention--voluntary control of brain cells. Science 332:1512–1513

A journal article with 2 authors

Salter MG, Fern R (2005) NMDA receptors are expressed in developing oligodendrocyte processes and mediate injury. Nature 438:1167–1171

A journal article with 3 authors

Roopnarine PD, Angielczyk KD, Hertog R (2006) Comment on “Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.” Science 314:925; author reply 925

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jo G-B, Lee Y-R, Choi J-H, et al (2009) Itinerant ferromagnetism in a Fermi gas of ultracold atoms. Science 325:1521–1524

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hochstadt H (1988) Integral Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pichardo Lagunas O, Herrera Alcántara O, Arroyo Figueroa G (eds) (2015) Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications: 14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2015, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, October 25-31, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Laasch H-U (2013) Current Designs of Self-Expanding Stents. In: Kozarek R, Baron T, Song H-Y (eds) Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract. Springer, New York, NY, pp 51–69

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 Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Microscopic Marine Plants Bioengineer Their Environment To Enhance Their Own Growth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/microscopic-marine-plants-bioengineer-their-environment-to-enhance-their-own-growth/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1989) Computer Systems: Actions on OMB Recommendations for a Joint Lookout System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Cook MM (2017) An Examination of the Proportion of Special Education Students in Single-Parent Homes in Comparison to Regular Education Students in Similar Households. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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 Chilly To Bid to Alter Death Penalty. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roelfsema 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Salter and Fern 2005; Roelfsema 2011).

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

Two authors: (Salter and Fern 2005)
Three or more authors: (Jo et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Abbreviation	Meteorol. Atmos. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0177-7971
ISSN (online)	1436-5065
Scope	Atmospheric Science