How to format your references using the Monthly Weather Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Monthly Weather Review. 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

van Swinderen, B., 2007: Attention-like processes in Drosophila require short-term memory genes. Science, 315, 1590–1593.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fenistein, D., and M. Van Hecke, 2003: Kinematics: wide shear zones in granular bulk flow. Nature, 425, 256.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cardinale, B. J., M. A. Palmer, and S. L. Collins, 2002: Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation. Nature, 415, 426–429.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Blanchon, P., and Coauthors, 2014: Postglacial fringing-reef to barrier-reef conversion on Tahiti links Darwin’s reef types. Sci. Rep., 4, 4997.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edelstein, L. N., and C. A. Waehler, 2011: What Do I Say? John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maziero, C. A., J. Gabriel Silva, A. M. S. Andrade, and F. M. de Assis Silva, eds., 2005: Dependable Computing: Second Latin-American Symposium, LADC 2005, Salvador, Brazil, October 25-28, 2005. Proceedings. Springer XV, 267 pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Kifer, M., and S. A. Smolka, 2007: Memory: Virtual Memory Management. Introduction to Operating System Design and Implementation: The OSP 2 Approach, S.A. Smolka, Ed., Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science, Springer, 75–101.

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 Monthly Weather Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015: An Animal That Could Rewrite The Family Tree: One Of The Top New Species Of 2015. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 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, 1997: Multiple Launch Rocket System: Range Less Than Needed and Sustained Rocket Production Not Ensured. 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

Gonzales, M., 2017: Examining institutional career preparation: Student perceptions of their workplace readiness and the role of the university in student career development. Pepperdine 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

Hodara, S., 2015: Art and Its Inspiration, Side by Side. New York Times, July 12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van Swinderen 2007).
This sentence cites two references (van Swinderen 2007; Fenistein and Van Hecke 2003).

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

Two authors: (Fenistein and Van Hecke 2003)
Three or more authors: (Blanchon et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Monthly Weather Review
Abbreviation	Mon. Weather Rev.
ISSN (print)	0027-0644
ISSN (online)	1520-0493
Scope	Atmospheric Science