How to format your references using the Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 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

Mogi K (2013) Cognitive factors correlating with the metacognition of the phenomenal properties of experience. Sci Rep 3:3354

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilks J, Golovkina T (2015) Immunology. Interfering with interferons. Science 347:233–234

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee J, Abdeen AA, Kilian KA (2014) Rewiring mesenchymal stem cell lineage specification by switching the biophysical microenvironment. Sci Rep 4:5188

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Roos-Serote M, Vasavada AR, Kamp L, et al (2000) Proximate humid and dry regions in Jupiter’s atmosphere indicate complex local meteorology. Nature 405:158–160

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brillson LJ (2016) An Essential Guide to Electronic Material Surfaces and Interfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Vadhan SP (ed) (2007) Theory of Cryptography: 4th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 21-24, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Yu TH, Fuller BW, Bannick JH, et al (2008) Integrated Environment Management for Information Operations Testbeds. In: Goodall JR, Conti G, Ma K-L (eds) VizSEC 2007: Proceedings of the Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–83

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 Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics.

Blog post

Andrew D (2015) The Science Of Redheads. In: IFLScience. 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 (2016) Information Technology: FEMA Needs to Address Management Weaknesses to Improve Its Systems. 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

Paustian ME (2010) Evaluating competition between the non-native slug Arion subfuscus and the native slug Philomycus carolinianus. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Barron J (2016) Owner of Brooklyn Brownstone Sees Herself Caught in Airbnb Crossfire. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mogi 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Mogi 2013; Wilks and Golovkina 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wilks and Golovkina 2015)
Three or more authors: (Roos-Serote et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
Abbreviation	Meteorol. Atmos. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0177-7971
ISSN (online)	1436-5065
Scope	Atmospheric Science