How to format your references using the Atmosphere-Ocean citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atmosphere-Ocean. 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

McNutt, M. (2013). Climate change impacts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6145), 435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hastings, A., & Palmer, M. A. (2003). Mathematics and biology. A bright future for biologists and mathematicians? Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5615), 2003–2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sugawara, T., Kano, F., & Murata, M. (2014). Rab2A is a pivotal switch protein that promotes either secretion or ER-associated degradation of (pro)insulin in insulin-secreting cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 6952.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kuhara, A., Okumura, M., Kimata, T., Tanizawa, Y., Takano, R., Kimura, K. D., Inada, H., Matsumoto, K., & Mori, I. (2008). Temperature sensing by an olfactory neuron in a circuit controlling behavior of C. elegans. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5877), 803–807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parke, R. D. (2013). Future Families. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Fine, I. H., & Mojon, D. S. (Eds.). (2010). Minimally Invasive Ophthalmic Surgery. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Arreeras, S., Angskun, T., & Angskun, J. (2009). Intercropping Planning Models for an Agricultural Expert System. In B. Papasratorn, W. Chutimaskul, K. Porkaew, & V. Vanijja (Eds.), Advances in Information Technology: Third International Conference, IAIT 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, December 1-5, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 30–38). Springer.

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 Atmosphere-Ocean.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, November 2). Study Reveals That Your Cat Is Basically A Tiny Lion. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/no-your-cat-isnt-plotting-kill-youbut-it-has-lions-personality/

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. (1988). Obtaining Care for Chronically Ill Children in the Home Based Setting (T-HRD-88-17). 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

Vestergaard, E. V. (2015). The shadow in Latvian mythological legends: A Jungian perspective [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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, September 28). Growing More Diverse. New York Times, NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNutt, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hastings & Palmer, 2003; McNutt, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hastings & Palmer, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kuhara et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmosphere-Ocean
Abbreviation	Atmosphere-Ocean
ISSN (print)	0705-5900
ISSN (online)	1480-9214
Scope	Atmospheric Science Oceanography