How to format your references using the Weather and Forecasting citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Weather and Forecasting. 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

May, R. M., 2010: Ecology. Tropical arthropod species, more or less? Science, 329, 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, W. M., and S. J. Ceci, 2005: Recruiters and academia. Academics worry about hiring “undiscovered geniuses.” Nature, 435, 534.

A journal article with 3 authors

Persha, L., A. Agrawal, and A. Chhatre, 2011: Social and ecological synergy: local rulemaking, forest livelihoods, and biodiversity conservation. Science, 331, 1606–1608.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Yu, W., L. Xu, N. Graham, and J. Qu, 2014: Pre-treatment for ultrafiltration: effect of pre-chlorination on membrane fouling. Sci. Rep., 4, 6513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rémond, Y., S. Ahzi, M. Baniassadi, and H. Garmestani, 2016: Applied RVE Reconstruction and Homogenization of Heterogeneous Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Banichuk, N. V., 2010: Structural Optimization with Uncertainties. P. Neittaanmäki, Ed. Springer Netherlands, XII, 233 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Wisløff, U., P. M. Haram, and O. J. Kemi, 2007: Genetic Vs. Acquired Fitness: Cardiomyocyte Adaptations. Role of Physical Exercise in Preventing Disease and Improving the Quality of Life, V. Stocchi, P.D. Feo, and D.A. Hood, Eds., Springer, 61–81.

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 Weather and Forecasting.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015: 23andMe Will Resume Giving Health Data In The US. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/23andme-will-resume-giving-health-data-us/ (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, 1997: Aviation Insurance: Issues Related to the Reauthorization of FAA’s Aviation Insurance Program. 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

Altiparmak, F., 2008: Online Management and Mining of Heteregenous and Dynamic Time Series. Ohio State 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

Koblin, J., 2017: ‘Walking Dead’ Producers Sue Its Network. New York Times, August 15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May 2010).
This sentence cites two references (May 2010; Williams and Ceci 2005).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Ceci 2005)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Weather and Forecasting
Abbreviation	Weather Forecast.
ISSN (print)	0882-8156
ISSN (online)	1520-0434
Scope	Atmospheric Science