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

Check, E., 2004. Retraction signals end of cell-biology debate. Nature 427, 574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abraham, R.T., Tibbetts, R.S., 2005. Cell biology. Guiding ATM to broken DNA. Science 308, 510–511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Norouzzadeh, P., Myles, C.W., Vashaee, D., 2014. Prediction of giant thermoelectric power factor in type-VIII clathrate Si46. Sci. Rep. 4, 7028.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bello, A., Chand, A., Aviles, J., Soule, G., Auricchio, A., Kobinger, G.P., 2014. Novel adeno-associated viruses derived from pig tissues transduce most major organs in mice. Sci. Rep. 4, 6644.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, K.H., Barnes, R., 2010. VoIP Emergency Calling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Schwoerer, H., Beleites, B., Magill, J. (Eds.), 2006. Lasers and Nuclei: Applications of Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers in Nuclear Science, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Beyer, C., 2008. Noematic Sinn, in: Mattens, F. (Ed.), Meaning and Language: Phenomenological Perspectives, Phaenomenologica. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 75–88.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Sony Is Trying To Patent A Contact Lens That Can Record And Play Video At The Blink Of An Eye [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/sony-wants-patent-smart-contact-lens/ (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, 1987. School Lunch Program: Evaluation of Alternatives to Commodity Donations (No. RCED-87-113). 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

Beaven, L., 2014. Epiphanies of soul: “When the bolts of the universe fly open.” A depth psychological contemplation of wonder (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., Thee-Brenan, M., 2016. Spot on Ballot Is No Cure-All, Women Say in Poll. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Abraham and Tibbetts, 2005; Check, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Abraham and Tibbetts, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Bello et al., 2014)

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