How to format your references using the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 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

Watanabe, S., 2015: Slow or fast? A tale of synaptic vesicle recycling. Science, 350, 46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frieda, K. L., and S. M. Block, 2012: Direct observation of cotranscriptional folding in an adenine riboswitch. Science, 338, 397–400.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkovich, G., A. Fouxon, and M. G. Stepanov, 2002: Acceleration of rain initiation by cloud turbulence. Nature, 419, 151–154.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Xu, Z., and Coauthors, 2014: Age-dependent postoperative cognitive impairment and Alzheimer-related neuropathology in mice. Sci. Rep., 4, 3766.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kerzner, H., and C. Belack, 2010: Managing Complex Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Duncan, G. T., 2011: Statistical Confidentiality: Principles and Practice. M. Elliot and J.-J. Salazar-González, Eds. Springer XII, 200 pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Sarcar, P., S. Basu, and A. Ghosh, 2015: Broadband Rectangular Microstrip Patch Antennas for K and EHF Bands. Computational Advancement in Communication Circuits and Systems: Proceedings of ICCACCS 2014, K. Maharatna, G.K. Dalapati, P.K. Banerjee, A.K. Mallick, and M. Mukherjee, Eds., Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer India, 29–37.

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 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016: How Feasible Are Elon Musk’s Plans To Settle On Mars? A Planetary Scientist Explains. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-feasible-are-elon-musks-plans-to-settle-on-mars-a-planetary-scientist-explains/.

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, 2007: Information Technology: VA and DOD Are Making Progress in Sharing Medical Information, but Are Far from Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records. 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

Mitchell, S. F., 2009: Life-review therapy: A prevention program for the elderly who are experiencing life transitions. A grant proposal. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Joy, S., 2014: Who’s That (Cool) Girl? New York Times, November 27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watanabe 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Watanabe 2015; Frieda and Block 2012).

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

Two authors: (Frieda and Block 2012)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Abbreviation	Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0003-0007
ISSN (online)	1520-0477
Scope	Atmospheric Science