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]

Steinberger, B. (2008) Geophysics. Reconstructing Earth history in three dimensions. Science (New York, N.Y.). 322 (5903), 866–868.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sun, Y. and Xia, Y. (2002) Shape-controlled synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles. Science (New York, N.Y.). 298 (5601), 2176–2179.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rodell, M., Velicogna, I., and Famiglietti, J.S. (2009) Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India. Nature. 460 (7258), 999–1002.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Premenko-Lanier, M., Moseley, N.B., Pruett, S.T., Romagnoli, P.A., and Altman, J.D. (2008) Transient FTY720 treatment promotes immune-mediated clearance of a chronic viral infection. Nature. 454 (7206), 894–898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rossiter, A. (2008) Professional Excellence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Fonseca Ferreira, N.M. and Tenreiro Machado, J.A., Eds. (2014) Mathematical Methods in Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kensche, D., Quix, C., Chatti, M.A., and Jarke, M. (2007) GeRoMe: A Generic Role Based Metamodel for Model Management. in: S. Spaccapietra, P. Atzeni, F. Fages, M.-S. Hacid, M. Kifer, J. Mylopoulos, et al. (Eds.), Journal on Data Semantics VIII, Springer, Berlin, Heidelbergpp. 82–117.

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. (2014) Why Are Humans Altruistic? 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 (1974) Subcontract Estimate For E-2c Passive Detection Systems in Prime Contract With Grumman Aerospace Corporation. 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]

Forlano, L. (2008) When code meets place: Collaboration and innovation at WiFi hotspots, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2008.

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]

St. John Kelly, E. (1994) PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times. 1314.

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