How to format your references using the Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA). 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

Hill, G. E. 2004: Ecology. A head start for some redstarts. Science, 306, 2201–2202.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seelig, J. D., and V. Jayaraman. 2015: Neural dynamics for landmark orientation and angular path integration. Nature, 521, 186–191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Y. A., A.-C. Feng, and P. A. Ganz. 2014: Health services utilisation in breast cancer survivors in Taiwan. Sci. Rep., 4, 7466.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Samanta, M. P., W. Tongprasit, S. Istrail, R. A. Cameron, Q. Tu, E. H. Davidson, and V. Stolc. 2006: The transcriptome of the sea urchin embryo. Science, 314, 960–962.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bliesner, D. M. 2006: Establishing a CGMP Laboratory Audit System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pfeifer, T., and P. Bellavista Eds. 2009: Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management: 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2009, Venice, Italy, October 26-27, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, XII, 201 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ortolani, S., C. Giuffrida, and B. Crispo. 2011: KLIMAX: Profiling Memory Write Patterns to Detect Keystroke-Harvesting Malware. In R. Sommer, D. Balzarotti, and G. Maier, Eds., Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 14th International Symposium, RAID 2011, Menlo Park, CA, USA, September 20-21, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, pp. 81–100.

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 Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2015: Two Mysterious White Spots Observed On Ceres. (Available online at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/ceres-white-spots-are-multiplying/, 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. 1996: Public Education: Issues Involving Single-Gender Schools and Programs, HEHS-96-122, HEHS-96-122, 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

Bade, L. L. 2010: Extending the benefits of alcohol and drug treatment: An exploration of volunteer utilization and delivery of recovery services. Doctoral dissertation. 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

Crow, K. 2000: As if Poe Had Written Their Tale, Tenants’ Windows Are Bricked Up. New York Times, July 30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hill 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hill 2004; Seelig and Jayaraman 2015).

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

Two authors: (Seelig and Jayaraman 2015)
Three or more authors: (Samanta et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere
ISSN (online)	1349-6476
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