How to format your references using the Weather and Forecasting citation style

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

Macrakis, K., 2009: Science and the Stasi. Nature, 461, 594–595.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, S. L., and K. Wilson, 2002: Parasites as a viability cost of sexual selection in natural populations of mammals. Science, 297, 2015–2018.

A journal article with 3 authors

Samet, J. M., D. M. DeMarini, and H. V. Malling, 2004: Biomedicine. Do airborne particles induce heritable mutations? Science, 304, 971–972.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Nishimasu, H., and Coauthors, 2018: Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease with expanded targeting space. Science, 361, 1259–1262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jiang, J., and C. Zhang, 2015: Fundamentals and Applications of Lithium-ion Batteries in Electric Drive Vehicles. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Aldashev, A., and R. Naeije, eds., 2007: Problems of High Altitude Medicine and Biology. Springer Netherlands VIII, 306 pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, Y., and D. Evans, 2011: Protecting Private Web Content from Embedded Scripts. Computer Security – ESORICS 2011: 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Leuven, Belgium, September 12-14,2011. Proceedings, V. Atluri and C. Diaz, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 60–79.

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 Weather and Forecasting.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2015: Check Out This Gorilla’s Reaction To Seeing Other Gorillas On A Smartphone. 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, 1990: Commerce ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information. 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

Bernstine, J. T., 2015: Experiences of Students Transferring from Community and Technical Colleges to a Private Nonprofit University. George Washington 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

Shear, M. D., 2016: Trump as Cyberbully in Chief? New Twitter Attack Draws Fire. New York Times, December 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macrakis 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Macrakis 2009; Moore and Wilson 2002).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Wilson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Nishimasu et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Weather and Forecasting
Abbreviation	Weather Forecast.
ISSN (print)	0882-8156
ISSN (online)	1520-0434
Scope	Atmospheric Science