How to format your references using the Monthly Weather Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Monthly Weather Review. 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	Download the output style file
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

Dalton, R., 2001: Arson hampers conservation work. Nature, 411, 509.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thursby, J., and M. Thursby, 2006: Research and development. Where is the new science in corporate R&D? Science, 314, 1547–1548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keller, K. E., I. S. Tan, and Y.-S. Lee, 2012: SAICAR stimulates pyruvate kinase isoform M2 and promotes cancer cell survival in glucose-limited conditions. Science, 338, 1069–1072.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Li, L., R. M. Thomas, H. Suzuki, J. K. De Brabander, X. Wang, and P. G. Harran, 2004: A small molecule Smac mimic potentiates TRAIL- and TNFalpha-mediated cell death. Science, 305, 1471–1474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond, B., 2016: Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Borrego, C., and A.-L. Norman, eds., 2007: Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XVII. Springer US, XIX, 744 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

He, Y., 2013: Genome-Based Computational Vaccine Discovery by Reverse Vaccinology. Immunomic Discovery of Adjuvants and Candidate Subunit Vaccines, D.R. Flower and Y. Perrie, Eds., Springer, 91–104.

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 Monthly Weather Review.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016: Watch Live As Elon Musk Reveals His Plan To Colonize Mars. 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, 2006: Wood Utilization: Federal Research and Product Development Activities, Support, and Technology Transfer. 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

Ortiz, J. A., 2014: New graduate nurses’ experiences of what accounts for their lack of professional confidence during their first year of practice. Capella 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

Sisario, B., 2017: Bill Murray’s Latest Surprise Career Turn. New York Times, April 19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2001; Thursby and Thursby 2006).

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

Two authors: (Thursby and Thursby 2006)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Monthly Weather Review
Abbreviation	Mon. Weather Rev.
ISSN (print)	0027-0644
ISSN (online)	1520-0493
Scope	Atmospheric Science