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

Steed, J.W., 2002. Materials science. Molecular “ghosts.” Science 298, 976–977.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tilman, D., Clark, M., 2014. Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health. Nature 515, 518–522.

A journal article with 3 authors

Medina, P.P., Nolde, M., Slack, F.J., 2010. OncomiR addiction in an in vivo model of microRNA-21-induced pre-B-cell lymphoma. Nature 467, 86–90.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, J.H., Costan, E., van Huis, M.A., Xu, Q., Zandbergen, H.W., 2006. Atomic pillar-based nanoprecipitates strengthen AlMgSi alloys. Science 312, 416–419.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shynk, J.J., 2016. Mathematical Foundations for Linear Circuits and Systems in Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gopalakrishnakone, P., Corzo, G.A., de Lima, M.E., Diego-García, E. (Eds.), 2016. Spider Venoms, Toxinology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Andersen, P.T., 2013. Sociological Perspectives on Neighbourhood Context and Health, in: Stock, C., Ellaway, A. (Eds.), Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 61–75.

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

Davis, J., 2016. New Species Of Bee Found To Quarry Nests Into Solid Rock In Death Valley [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-of-bee-found-to-quarry-nests-into-solid-rock-in-death-valley/ (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, 1993. Aviation Research: Actions to Enhance the Effectiveness of FAA’s Research Activities (No. T-RCED-93-40). 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

Ward, V.J., 2015. A study of the perceptions of first-year teachers as prepared classroom teachers (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Worst Call Ever? Sure. Kill the Umpires? Never. 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 (Steed, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Steed, 2002; Tilman and Clark, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tilman and Clark, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2006)

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