How to format your references using the Aerosol and Air Quality Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aerosol and Air Quality Research (AAQR). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Andreae, M.O. (2007). Atmosphere. Aerosols before pollution. Science 315, 50–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, J.-Y., Jameson, S.C. (2012). Immunology. Remembering to be tolerant. Science 335, 667–668.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bunge, J., Epstein, S.S., Peterson, D.G. (2006). Comment on “Computational improvements reveal great bacterial diversity and high metal toxicity in soil.” Science 313, 918; author reply 918.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hu, C., Ahmed, M., Melia, T.J., Söllner, T.H., Mayer, T., Rothman, J.E. (2003). Fusion of cells by flipped SNAREs. Science 300, 1745–1749.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox, I., Gaudard, M.A., Stephens, M.L. (2016). Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Groschner, K., Graier, W.F., Romanin, C. (Eds.) (2012). Store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) pathways: Emerging signaling concepts in human (patho)physiology. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Shu, B., Niu, Z., Zhang, C., Jiang, X., Fu, H., Chen, W. (2015). A Novel Recommendation Relevancy Measure for Collaborative Filtering, in: Chiu, D.K.W., Wang, M., Popescu, E., Li, Q., Lau, R., Shih, T.K., Yang, C.-S., Sampson, D.G. (Eds.), Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2013 Workshops: USL 2013, IWSLL 2013, KMEL 2013, IWCWL 2013, WIL 2013, and IWEEC 2013, Kenting, Taiwan, October 6-9, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 32–41.

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 Aerosol and Air Quality Research.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). How Octopuses Don’t Get Tangled Up. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-octopuses-dont-get-tangled/ (accessed 30 October 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 (1990). Drug Education: School-Based Programs Seen as Useful but Impact Unknown (No. HRD-91-27). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

van der Veen, A.M. (2012). Domestic Politics, International Inaction: The United States and Human Rights Treaties (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Murphy, M.J.O. (2015). Remembering ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.’ New York Times C29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Andreae, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Andreae, 2007; Lee and Jameson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Jameson, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aerosol and Air Quality Research
ISSN (print)	1680-8584
ISSN (online)	2071-1409
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