How to format your references using the International Journal of Biometeorology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Biometeorology. 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

Xu Z (2011) Modernization: One step at a time. Nature 480:S90-2

A journal article with 2 authors

Gin DL, Noble RD (2011) Chemistry. Designing the next generation of chemical separation membranes. Science 332:674–676

A journal article with 3 authors

Politi A, Matthews JCF, O’Brien JL (2009) Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm on a photonic chip. Science 325:1221

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wittmann CW, Wszolek MF, Shulman JM, et al (2001) Tauopathy in Drosophila: neurodegeneration without neurofibrillary tangles. Science 293:711–714

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szeman I, O’Brien S (2017) Popular Culture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ivanović M, Thalheim B, Catania B, et al (eds) (2016) New Trends in Databases and Information Systems: ADBIS 2016 Short Papers and Workshops, BigDap, DCSA, DC, Prague, Czech Republic, August 28-31, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

John NW (2008) Segmentation of Radiological Images. In: Neri E, Caramella D, Bartolozzi C (eds) Image Processing in Radiology: Current Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 45–54

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 International Journal of Biometeorology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Lab-Grown Blood To Be Trialled in the U.K. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lab-grown-blood-be-trialed-uk/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Reagan National Airport: Capacity to Handle Additional Flights and Impact on Other Area Airports. 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

Pepper I (2010) On the Difference between Serialism and Seriality. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Wagner J (2017) So Much for the Arms That Carry the Mets. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xu 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gin and Noble 2011; Xu 2011).

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

Two authors: (Gin and Noble 2011)
Three or more authors: (Wittmann et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Biometeorology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Biometeorol.
ISSN (print)	0020-7128
ISSN (online)	1432-1254
Scope	Atmospheric Science Ecology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis