How to format your references using the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 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

Smaglik, P.: Swatting flies, Nature, 429, 111, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeates, T. O. and Clubb, R. T.: Biochemistry. How some pili pull, Science, 318, 1558–1559, 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe, T., Náñez, J. E., and Sasaki, Y.: Perceptual learning without perception, Nature, 413, 844–848, 2001.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Sugioka, H., Hamano, Y., Baba, K., Kasaya, T., Tada, N., and Suetsugu, D.: Tsunami: ocean dynamo generator, Sci. Rep., 4, 3596, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tsui, J. B.-Y.: Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

Hall, J. C. (Ed.): Doing More with Less: Making Colleges Work Better, Springer, New York, NY, IX, 290 p p., 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Angelopoulos, S.: Online Priority Steiner Tree Problems, in: Algorithms and Data Structures: 11th International Symposium, WADS 2009, Banff, Canada, August 21-23, 2009. Proceedings, edited by: Dehne, F., Gavrilova, M., Sack, J.-R., and Tóth, C. D., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 37–48, 2009.

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 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: Brazil’s Sewage Woes Reflect The Growing Global Water Quality Crisis, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/brazils-sewage-woes-reflect-the-growing-global-water-quality-crisis/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2016., 2016.

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: Bus Rapid Transit: Projects Improve Transit Service and Can Contribute to Economic Development, GAO-12-811, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roache, R. S.: Missouri Public School Teachers’ Perception of Tenure, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2015.

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

Qiu, L.: Democrats Are Unified, but Not Always Accurate, on Health Bill Attacks, , New York Times22nd MarchA15, 2017.

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; Yeates and Clubb, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Yeates and Clubb, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sugioka et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Abbreviation	Atmos. Chem. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1680-7316
ISSN (online)	1680-7324
Scope	Atmospheric Science