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

Long, T. E., 2014: Materials science. Toward recyclable thermosets. Science, 344, 706–707.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robinson, J. P., and M. Roederer, 2015: HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Flow cytometry strikes gold. Science, 350, 739–740.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petersen, J., J. Volz, and A. Rauschenbeutel, 2014: Nanophotonics. Chiral nanophotonic waveguide interface based on spin-orbit interaction of light. Science, 346, 67–71.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Eguchi, F. C., E. F. Faria, C. Scapulatempo Neto, A. Longatto-Filho, C. Zanardo-Oliveira, S. R. Taboga, and S. G. P. Campos, 2014: The role of TMPRSS2:ERG in molecular stratification of PCa and its association with tumor aggressiveness: a study in Brazilian patients. Sci. Rep., 4, 5640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kivy, P., 2011: Once-Told Tales. Wiley-Blackwell,.

An edited book

Burkhardt, C. E., 2006: Topics in Atomic Physics. J.J. Leventhal, Ed. Springer, XIV, 288 p. 75 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Bretl, T., and Z. McCarthy, 2013: Equilibrium Configurations of a Kirchhoff Elastic Rod under Quasi-static Manipulation. Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics X: Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, E. Frazzoli, T. Lozano-Perez, N. Roy, and D. Rus, Eds., Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, 71–87.

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

Andrew, E., 2015: How Close Are We To Back To The Future’s Vision Of Tomorrow? A Scientist’s View. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-close-are-we-back-future-s-vision-tomorrow-scientist-s-view/ (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, 1984: Tax Information Safeguard Activity Annual Report. 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

Lee, Y.-J., 2010: Copying and summarizing: Possible tools to develop English reading and writing for university students of different proficiency levels in Korea. Indiana 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

Hollander, S., 2002: Transfer Finds Home At Manhattan College. New York Times, October 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Long 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Long 2014; Robinson and Roederer 2015).

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

Two authors: (Robinson and Roederer 2015)
Three or more authors: (Eguchi 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