Journal Abbreviations for References

A Quick Guide for Authors

AMS journals are abbreviated as follows:

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.
Earth Interactions: Earth Interact.
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology: J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol.
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol.
Journal of Climate: J. Climate
Journal of Hydrometeorology: J. Hydrometeor.
Journal of Physical Oceanography: J. Phys. Oceanogr.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: J. Atmos. Sci.
Monthly Weather Review: Mon. Wea. Rev.
Weather and Forecasting: Wea. Forecasting
Weather, Climate, and Society: Wea. Climate Soc.

The Chemical Abstracts Service has a handy online tool that you can use to find journal abbreviations: http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp. Searching for only one word at a time (for example, “meteorology”) seems to work best.

AMS style deviates from CASSI’s on a few words as shown in the following table:

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