BAMOS
June 2017
BAMOS author guidelines
for all submissions
The Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic
Society (BAMOS) accepts short (<2500 words) contributions of
original research work for peer- review and consideration in the
“Science Articles” section. Longer articles will be considered at
the discretion of the Editor and Editor-in-Chief.
Articles submitted to BAMOS should also be appropriate for
the whole AMOS community (from weather enthusiasts to
professional members) and should aim to be concise without
using excessive scientific jargon.
Book chapter:
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Theses:
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For the peer-reviewed “Science Articles” section, authors should
follow these guidelines:
1. Articles should be submitted as a PDF or Word document (or
similar) for peer-review and include all figures and tables either
within the main text or consecutively at the end of the article.
2. Articles should have a line spacing of 1.5 or more using a font
size of 12. Articles should preferably be written using Times
New Roman or Arial.
3. Articles should be split into sections, with the heading for
each section numbered consecutively and using a font size of
14. For example (these are title examples, headings are made
at the authors’ discretion):
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Results
4. Conclusions
4. An abstract is required and should not be more than 150
words in length.
5. Acknowledgements to be included after the final work
section and before the references.
6. References should follow these example formats:
Journal Articles:
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Jung, T., Ferranti, L. and Tompkins, A.M., 2006, Response to
the summer of 2003 Mediterranean SST anomalies over
Europe and Africa, Journal of Climate, 19, 5439–5454.
Books:
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Holton, J.R., 2004, An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology.
Academic Press, New York. 535 pp.
Last updated March 2017
Raymond, D.J., 1993. Chapter 2: Observational constraints
on cumulus parameterizations. In: The representation of
cumulus convection in numerical models, Meteorological
Monographs, 24 (46), 17–28, American Meteorological
Society, Boston, USA.
Trewin, B., 2001, Extreme temperature events in Australia.
PhD Thesis, School of Earth Sciences, University of
Melbourne, Australia.
Web sites:
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Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2012,
Bushfire history - Major bushfires in Victoria, www.dse.
vic.gov.au/fire-and-other-emergencies/major-bushfires-in-
victoria/
7. We recommend that the author(s) make five suggestions
for referees to undertake the peer-review. Also, we ask for a list
of five potential referees whom the author does not want as
reviewers, due to conflicts of interest, or past close association..
8. Once peer-review has been completed, a final version of the
document should be sent to the editor either in Word format or
as plain text. The document should also include figure and table
captions and the references but no figures. Figure files should
be sent separately (they may be in any format and the editor
will confer with the author(s) on the resolution and formatting).
9. Galley-proofs will be sent to the author(s) for final checking
before publication.
BAMOS also accepts a wide range of non-peer-reviewed work,
for example news items, charts from the past, conference
reports, book reviews, biographical articles and meet a member.
AMOS members are therefore encouraged to submit articles
that would be of general interest to the AMOS community
without necessarily requiring peer review. File formats should
follow those given above; a word or plain text document
should be submitted (which includes any figure captions and
tables) along with any figure files given separately.
All articles and any questions should be either posted or
emailed to the editor at [email protected].
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