How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 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

Boss, A. P., 2006: Obituary: George W. Wetherill (1925-2006). Nature, 442, 756.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, N., and J. J. DiCarlo, 2008: Unsupervised natural experience rapidly alters invariant object representation in visual cortex. Science, 321, 1502–1507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, E. D., M. S. Guyer, and National Human Genome Research Institute, 2011: Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside. Nature, 470, 204–213.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Arenz, A., R. A. Silver, A. T. Schaefer, and T. W. Margrie, 2008: The contribution of single synapses to sensory representation in vivo. Science, 321, 977–980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paterson, J. C., 2015: Lean Auditing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Thorpe, H., and R. Olive, eds., 2016: Women in Action Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics and Experience. Palgrave Macmillan UK XXI, 387 p. 11 illus., 7 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

Quattrocolo, S., 2015: The Right to Information in EU Legislation. Human Rights in European Criminal Law: New Developments in European Legislation and Case Law after the Lisbon Treaty, S. Ruggeri, Ed., Springer International Publishing, 81–93.

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 Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015: Gravity May Delay Loss Of Antarctic Ice. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/gravity-may-delay-loss-antarctic-ice/.

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, 1973: Summary of United States Assistance to Jordan. 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

Huynhle, M., 2017: High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Increases Resilience against Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection in Drosophila Larvae. 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

Sisario, B., 2016: Frank Ocean Takes Unusual Journey to No. 1. New York Times, August 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boss 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Boss 2006; Li and DiCarlo 2008).

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

Two authors: (Li and DiCarlo 2008)
Three or more authors: (Arenz et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol.
ISSN (print)	1558-8424
ISSN (online)	1558-8432
Scope	Atmospheric Science