BAMOS
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BAMOS author guidelines
for all submissions
The Bulletin of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic
Society (BAMOS) accepts a range of articles for publication.
All articles submitted to BAMOS should be appropriate for
the whole AMOS community (from weather enthusiasts to
professional members) and aim to be concise without using
excessive scientific jargon.
weather watching”, “1975: skies on fire”, or “lightning really
does strike twice”.
5. Any acknowledgements are to be included after the final
section and before the references.
6. Any references should follow these example formats:
Article types include, but are not limited to: t News, regional centre updates and conference reports:
Short pieces (300–800 words) informing the AMOS community
about relevant activities, awards or scientific news. These pieces
should ideally be accompanied by at least one image. Journal Articles: 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. (Cite as Jung et al., 2006).
t Books: Holton, J.R., 2004, An Introduction to Dynamic
Meteorology. Academic Press, New York. 535 pp.
t Book chapter: 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.
t Theses: Trewin, B., 2001, Extreme temperature events
in Australia. PhD Thesis, School of Earth Sciences,
University of Melbourne, Australia.
t Web sites: Department of Sustainability and
Environment, 2012, Bushfire history - Major bush
fires in Victoria, www.dse. vic.gov.au/fire-and-other-
emergencies/major-bushfires-in- victoria/. Accessed
28 December 2012.
Articles: Longer pieces (up to 1500 words) that go into more
scientific or technical depth about a topic or event. Pieces in
this category could include a summary of recently published
research, discussion of a historical weather event, or a personal
essay on an aspect of AMOS-related work.
Scientific articles: A longer contribution (<2500 words) of
original research, to be subjected to peer-review. Longer
articles may be considered at the discretion of the Editor and
Editor-in-Chief.
Book reviews, comments on previously published articles,
biographical notes, obituaries and other articles types are also
welcome for submission.
For Articles or peer-reviewed Science Articles, authors should
follow these guidelines:
1. Provide an abstract, no longer than 150 words
2. Articles should be submitted as a Word or plain text
document and include all figures and tables either within
the main text or consecutively at the end of the article.
3. 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.
4. Articles should be split into sections, to improve readability.
Subtitles can be numbered (e.g. 1. Introduction, 2. Method,
3. Results, 4. Conclusion), or can help to guide the reader
through the piece. For example, if you were preparing an
article on historical lightning frequency on your farm, you
might break the piece up using subtitles like “50 years of
7. We recommend that the author(s) of Science Articles make
three suggestions for referees to undertake the peer-
review. The author may also provide a list of up to three
potential referees they do not want as reviewers, due to
conflicts of interest, or past close association.
8. Once peer-review has been completed of a Science Article,
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 can be sent to the author(s) for final checking
before publication if requested.