How to format your references using the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry citation style

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

Maxmen, A.: Pharmacogenomics: playing the odds. Nature. 474, S9-10 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleizen, B., Braakman, I.: Cell biology. A sweet send-off. Science. 340, 930–931 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubrovinskaia, N., Dubrovinsky, L., Solozhenko, V.L.: Comment on “Synthesis of ultra-incompressible superhard rhenium diboride at ambient pressure.” Science. 318, 1550; author reply 1550 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dong, W., Zhang, K., Zhang, Y., Wei, T., Sun, Y., Chen, X., Dai, N.: Application of three-dimensionally area-selective atomic layer deposition for selectively coating the vertical surfaces of standing nanopillars. Sci. Rep. 4, 4458 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van der Heide, P.: Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

van de Krol, R., Grätzel, M. eds: Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production. Springer US, Boston, MA (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Ramsay, J.O., Hooker, G., Graves, S.: Smoothing: Computing Curves from Noisy Data. In: Hooker, G. and Graves, S. (eds.) Functional Data Analysis with R and MATLAB. pp. 59–82. Springer, New York, NY (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 Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: This Is What Happens To Footballers’ Brains When They Miss Penalties, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/this-is-what-happens-to-footballers-brains-when-they-miss-penalties/

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: Arthur Schoenhaut. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meaux, B.: Effect of Formation Deformation on Casing Standoff in Highly Deviated and Horizontal Wells, (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

Vecsey, G.: Tuning Up to Do the Super Bowl Shovel, (2010)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Kleizen and Braakman 2013; Maxmen 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kleizen and Braakman 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Atmos. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0167-7764
ISSN (online)	1573-0662
Scope	Atmospheric Science Environmental Chemistry