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

Patten, Lord (2006) Europe pays the price for spending less. Nature 441:691–693

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng Z, Tsourkas A (2014) Monitoring phospholipase A₂ activity with Gd-encapsulated phospholipid liposomes. Sci Rep 4:6958

A journal article with 3 authors

El-Ali J, Sorger PK, Jensen KF (2006) Cells on chips. Nature 442:403–411

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rein M, Favrod VD, Hou C, et al (2018) Diode fibres for fabric-based optical communications. Nature 560:214–218

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zonnenshain A, Stauber S (2015) Managing and Engineering Complex Technological Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pederzoli P, Bassi C (eds) (2013) Uncommon Pancreatic Neoplasms: In collaboration with Massimo Falconi, Roberto Salvia and Giovanni Butturini. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Qiao Y, Fallon E, Murphy L, et al (2007) SCTP Performance Issue on Path Delay Differential. In: Boavida F, Monteiro E, Mascolo S, Koucheryavy Y (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 5th International Conference, WWIC 2007, Coimbra, Portugal, May 23-25, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–54

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

Fang J (2016) This Ancient Fish Helps Bridge A Gap In Our Early Evolution, Before Animals Walked on Land. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-ancient-fish-helps-bridge-a-gap-in-our-early-evolution-before-animals-walked-on-land/. 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 (1991) Federal Research: Concerns About Developing and Producing Magnets for the Superconducting Super Collider. 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

Garcia M (2015) College preparedness program for high school students in South Los Angeles, California: A grant proposal. 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

Saslow L (2008) Playing in Cooperstown, On a Team of Their Own. New York Times LI5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patten 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Patten 2006; Cheng and Tsourkas 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cheng and Tsourkas 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rein et al. 2018)

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