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

Smaglik, P., 2004: Election returns. Nature, 432, 417.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shah, R. R., and N. L. Abbott, 2001: Principles for measurement of chemical exposure based on recognition-driven anchoring transitions in liquid crystals. Science, 293, 1296–1299.

A journal article with 3 authors

Silbergeld, E., S. Lerman, and L. Hushka, 2004: Ethics. Human health research ethics. Science, 305, 949.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Imamizu, H., S. Miyauchi, T. Tamada, Y. Sasaki, R. Takino, B. Pütz, T. Yoshioka, and M. Kawato, 2000: Human cerebellar activity reflecting an acquired internal model of a new tool. Nature, 403, 192–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bradley, R. L., Jr., 2011: Edison to Enron. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Kerschen, G., ed., 2016: Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, IX, 531 p. 449 illus., 321 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Sturmey, P., and D. E. Williams, 2016: Functional Assessment and Analysis and Function-Based Interventions. Pica in Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, D.E. Williams, Ed., Autism and Child Psychopathology Series, Springer International Publishing, 65–79.

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

Davis, J., 2016: More Illegal Ivory Now Seized Annually Than Cocaine. 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, 1987: Radio Frequencies: Earlier Coordination Could Improve System Use and Save Costs. 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

Arnold, D. M., 2017: An Examination of Job Satisfaction Among Full-Time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College. Mississippi 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

Feeney, K., 2008: Cuban Comfort. 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 (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Shah and Abbott 2001).

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

Two authors: (Shah and Abbott 2001)
Three or more authors: (Imamizu et al. 2000)

About the journal

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