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

Cane MA (2010) Climate: A moist model monsoon. Nature 463:163–164

A journal article with 2 authors

Bouibes A, Zaoui A (2014) High-pressure polymorphs of ZnCO₃: evolutionary crystal structure prediction. Sci Rep 4:5172

A journal article with 3 authors

MacMicking JD, Taylor GA, McKinney JD (2003) Immune control of tuberculosis by IFN-gamma-inducible LRG-47. Science 302:654–659

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Campbell AM, Eckdahl TT, Fowlks E, et al (2006) Collaborative programs. Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT). Science 311:1103–1104

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaul S, Ali F, Janakiram S, Wattenström B (2008) Business Models for Sustainable Telecoms Growth in Developing Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Maimon O, Rokach L (eds) (2008) Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Arseneault T, Filion M (2016) Phenazine-Producing Pseudomonas spp. as Biocontrol Agents of Plant Pathogens. In: Singh DP, Singh HB, Prabha R (eds) Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity: Vol. 2: Functional Applications. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 53–68

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 E (2014) Rise And Shine! New Horizons Awakes Ahead Of A Date With Pluto. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Mass Transit: Effects of Tax Changes on Commuter Behavior. 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

Rus EL (2017) A grant proposal for program “Tech Connect”: Bridging the generations through technology coaching. Doctoral dissertation, 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

(nyt) SK (2005) World Briefing | Europe: Azerbaijan: Opposition Urges Protests Over Killing. New York Times A8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cane 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cane 2010; Bouibes and Zaoui 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bouibes and Zaoui 2014)
Three or more authors: (Campbell et al. 2006)

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