How to format your references using the Atmospheric Pollution Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atmospheric Pollution Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Harmon, L., 2010. Journal club. An evolutionary biologist ponders the pace of evolution. Nature 463, 1003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nielsen, T.A., Stenstrom, P., 2005. What are the memory sources of dreaming? Nature 437, 1286–1289.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirn, T.J., Jude, B.A., Taylor, R.K., 2005. A colonization factor links Vibrio cholerae environmental survival and human infection. Nature 438, 863–866.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van der Marel, D., Molegraaf, H.J.A., Zaanen, J., Nussinov, Z., Carbone, F., Damascelli, A., Eisaki, H., Greven, M., Kes, P.H., Li, M., 2003. Quantum critical behaviour in a high-T(c) superconductor. Nature 425, 271–274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flynn, J.R., 2012. How to Improve Your Mind. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Lichtenstein, G.R. (Ed.), 2014. Medical Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Reddy, M.V., Hanumanthappa, M., 2013. Indic Language Machine Translation Tool: English to Kannada/Telugu, in: Swamy, P.P., Guru, D.S. (Eds.), Multimedia Processing, Communication and Computing Applications: Proceedings of the First International Conference, ICMCCA, 13-15 December 2012, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 35–49.

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 Pollution Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Sloths Aren’t Lazy – Their Slowness Is A Survival Skill [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sloths-arent-lazy-their-slowness-is-a-survival-skill/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1994. Advance Sheets: Volume 73, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States (No. OGC-94-28). 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

Ehigiator, O.J., 2015. A Closed Loop Control System for Pressure and Flow Detection Using a Vibrating String Transducer (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. Granderson’s Catches Add to October Lore. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Harmon, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Harmon, 2010; Nielsen and Stenstrom, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Nielsen and Stenstrom, 2005)
Three or more authors: (van der Marel et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Atmospheric Pollution Research
Abbreviation	Atmos. Pollut. Res.
ISSN (print)	1309-1042
Scope	Atmospheric Science Pollution Waste Management and Disposal