How to download a reference from AMS Journals Online

June 12, 2017 Filed under Blog, Featured, Potpourri, Writing

1. Go to an article, say http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0460.1

2. On the red bar, click on the download button (third icon from left).

3. This screen appears: http://journals.ametsoc.org/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1175%2FMWR-D-16-0460.1

4. At the bottom, you can copy the text for the reference list, including the doi.

Steenburgh, W.J. and L.S. Campbell, 2017: The OWLeS IOP2b Lake-Effect Snowstorm: Shoreline Geometry and the Mesoscale Forcing of Precipitation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 2421–2436, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0460.1

5. Paste it into your Word file.

6. To get it in proper format for Word, unlink the title to a hot link (command-K on my Mac), decapitalize the nonproper nouns in the title, and change the URL to a proper doi: “doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0460.1”.

Done.

Comments

3 Responses to “How to download a reference from AMS Journals Online”

Matt Bunkers says:

Wednesday, 14 June 2017 at 16:02

Thanks Dave! One more thing that would be nice is if the AMS put spaces between the author’s initials (i.e., D. S. versus D.S.). Not sure why they don’t because that is the standard in their journals.
Matthew Bunkers says:

Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 19:23

Argh! It looks like the AMS just changed this to a much less useful format. Dave, please use your power to change this.

Thanks,

— Matt
Prof. David M. Schultz says:

Wednesday, 4 April 2018 at 09:15

Hi Matt,

Sorry for the late response. Not sure I have much power, but I will raise it with the AMS. The situation did look to be much worse than it is now. Looks like the only remaining issues are the following:

1. No spaces between initials in authors’ names: “D.M. Schultz”.

2. Capital letters in titles.

3. URL at end of link needs to be changed to a DOI.

Dave