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]

Pearson, H. (2003) Mystery virus slow to yield its identity as patient numbers rise. Nature. 422 (6930), 364.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Trainor, P. and Krumlauf, R. (2002) Development. Riding the crest of the Wnt signaling wave. Science (New York, N.Y.). 297 (5582), 781–783.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Swiontek, S.E., Pulsifer, D.P., and Lakhtakia, A. (2013) Optical sensing of analytes in aqueous solutions with a multiple surface-plasmon-polariton-wave platform. Scientific Reports. 3 1409.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cardinale, B.J., Srivastava, D.S., Duffy, J.E., Wright, J.P., Downing, A.L., Sankaran, M., et al. (2006) Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems. Nature. 443 (7114), 989–992.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hersent, O., Petit, J.-P., and Gurle, D. (2005) Beyond VoIP Protocols. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. (2007) Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sanders, J.D. and Jeste, D.V. (2013) Neurobiological Basis of Personal Wisdom. in: M. Ferrari, N.M. Weststrate (Eds.), The Scientific Study of Personal Wisdom: From Contemplative Traditions to Neuroscience, Springer Netherlands, Dordrechtpp. 99–112.

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) Do Brain Interventions To Treat Disease Change The Essence Of Who We Are? 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 (1989) Aviation Safety: Information on FAA’s Age 60 Rule for Pilots. 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]

Newsom, S.M. (2012) Love and Creativity: A Shared Dynamic, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2012.

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]

Kanter, J. (2017) Head of European Council Reappointed Over Protest. New York Times. A10.

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