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

Potocnik, J., 2007: Renewable energy sources and the realities of setting an energy agenda. Science, 315, 810–811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bruun, E., and M. Givoni, 2015: Sustainable mobility: Six research routes to steer transport policy. Nature, 523, 29–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, S.-H., A. C. Kwan, and Y. Dan, 2014: Interneuron subtypes and orientation tuning. Nature, 508, E1-2.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Hoefen, T. M., R. N. Clark, J. L. Bandfield, M. D. Smith, J. C. Pearl, and P. R. Christensen, 2003: Discovery of olivine in the Nili Fssae region of Mars. Science, 302, 627–630.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cherrie, J. W., R. M. Howie, and S. Semple, 2010: Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work. Wiley-Blackwell,.

An edited book

Sala, E., 2008: Radiology for Surgeons in Clinical Practice. D.J. Lomas, A.H. Freeman, and H. Ringl, Eds. Springer, XI, 139 p. 90 illus., 5 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Aydogan-Duda, N., 2012: Education, Science and Technology in Developing Countries. Making It to the Forefront: Nanotechnology—A Developing Country Perspective, N. Aydogan-Duda, Ed., Springer, 35–40.

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

Hamilton, K., 2015: The Most Incredible Photographs The Hubble Telescope Has Ever Taken. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-space-telescope-s-25th-anniversary/ (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: Financial Management Systems: Lack of Disciplined Process Puts Effective Implementation of Treasury’s Governmentwide Financial Report System at Risk. 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

Radcliffe, M. L., 2012: Random Graphs with Attribute Affinity. University of California San Diego, .

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

Kelly, M., 1992: THE TRANSITION: Political Memo; Clinton, After Raising Hopes, Tries to Lower Expectations. New York Times, November 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Potocnik 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Potocnik 2007; Bruun and Givoni 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bruun and Givoni 2015)
Three or more authors: (Hoefen et al. 2003)

About the journal

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