How to format your references using the Advances in Climate Change Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Climate Change Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Callaway, E., 2015. Computers read the fossil record. Nature 523, 115–116.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jennings, M.D., Pavitt, G.D., 2010. eIF5 has GDI activity necessary for translational control by eIF2 phosphorylation. Nature 465, 378–381.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholey, J.M., Brust-Mascher, I., Mogilner, A., 2003. Cell division. Nature 422, 746–752.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matsubayashi, K., Maki, M., Tsuzuki, T., Nishioka, T., Sato, N.K., 2002. Magnetic properties: parasitic ferromagnetism in a hexaboride? Nature 420, 143–4; discussion 144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michaelian, K.H., 2005. Photoacoustic Infrared Spectroscopy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Asakawa, Y., 2013. Chemical Constituents of Bryophytes: Bio- and Chemical Diversity, Biological Activity, and Chemosystematics, Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Chakravarthy, S., Jiang, Q., 2009. LITERATURE REVIEW, in: Chakravarthy, S. (Ed.), Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective: Modeling, Scheduling, Load Shedding, and Complex Event Processing, Advances in Database Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 33–48.

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 Advances in Climate Change Research.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2015. Gorilla Cracks Glass Window At Zoo After Little Girl Beats Chest [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gorilla-cracks-glass-window-zoo/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2009. Federal Student Aid: Highlights of a Study Group on Simplifying the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (No. GAO-10-29). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Forshey, T.M., 2013. Neural basis of the neurological diagnostic power of vibrotactile sensory testing (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. A Habeas Corpus Appeal Veers to Capital Issues. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Callaway, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Callaway, 2015; Jennings and Pavitt, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jennings and Pavitt, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Matsubayashi et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Climate Change Research
Abbreviation	Adv. Clim. Chang. Res.
ISSN (print)	1674-9278
Scope	Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law