How to format your references using the American Journal of Climate Change citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Climate Change (AJCC). 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

[1]

Pimentel, D. (2000) Biological control of invading species. Science (New York, N.Y.). 289 (5481), 869c.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

To, T.-L. and Maheshri, N. (2010) Noise can induce bimodality in positive transcriptional feedback loops without bistability. Science (New York, N.Y.). 327 (5969), 1142–1145.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Day, M., Langston, R., and Morris, R.G.M. (2003) Glutamate-receptor-mediated encoding and retrieval of paired-associate learning. Nature. 424 (6945), 205–209.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shio, M.T., Paquet, M., Martel, C., Bosschaerts, T., Stienstra, S., Olivier, M., et al. (2014) Drug delivery by tattooing to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis. Scientific Reports. 4 4156.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rahman, R.O.A., Rakhimov, R.Z., Rakhimova, N.R., and Ojovan, M.I. (2014) Cementitious Materials for Nuclear Waste Immobilization. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Edwards, D., Høyer-Hansen, G., Blasi, F., and Sloane, B.F., Eds. (2008) The Cancer Degradome: Proteases and Cancer Biology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Brombin, C., Salmaso, L., Fontanella, L., Ippoliti, L., and Fusilli, C. (2016) Parametric and Non-parametric Testing of Mean Shapes. in: L. Salmaso, L. Fontanella, L. Ippoliti, C. Fusilli (Eds.), Parametric and Nonparametric Inference for Statistical Dynamic Shape Analysis with Applications, Springer International Publishing, Champp. 59–72.

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 American Journal of Climate Change.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E. (2015) How We Found Out There Are Three Trillion Trees On Earth. IFLScience.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office (1973) Bid Rejection Protest. 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

[1]

Stroot, P.G. (2004) Novel Reverse Transcription Method Confirms Growth Inhibition of Bacteria Exposed to Domestic Wastewater, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2004.

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

[1]

Shpigel, B. (2016) Fitzpatrick’s Steady Hand Is Upended by a Late Blow. New York Times. D6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Climate Change
Abbreviation	Am. J. Clim. Change
ISSN (print)	2167-9495
ISSN (online)	2167-9509
Scope