How to format your references using the City and Climate Interactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for City and Climate Interactions. 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]

Wright AR. Realising Haldane’s vision for a Chern insulator in buckled lattices. Sci Rep 2013;3:2736.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Neilsen J, Lee JC. Accretion disk winds as the jet suppression mechanism in the microquasar GRS 1915+105. Nature 2009;458:481–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tahir M, MacKinnon A, Schwingenschlögl U. Novel spectral features of nanoelectromechanical systems. Sci Rep 2014;4:4035.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Littlefair SP, Dhillon VS, Marsh TR, Gänsicke BT, Southworth J, Watson CA. A brown dwarf mass donor in an accreting binary. Science 2006;314:1578–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Moritz FG. Electromechanical Motion Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Manzano M, Sain I, Alonso E, editors. The Life and Work of Leon Henkin: Essays on His Contributions. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kim S-K, Han J-M, Song M-Y. A Social Network System Based on an Ontology in the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine. In: Breslin JG, Burg TN, Kim H-G, Raftery T, Schmidt J-H, editors. Recent Trends and Developments in Social Software: International Conferences on Social Software, BlogTalk 2008, Cork, Ireland, March 3-4, 2008, and BlogTalk 2009, Jeju Island, South Korea, September 15-16, 2009. Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 46–51.

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 City and Climate Interactions.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Contest Gives You The Chance To 3D Print Your Own Design On The International Space Station. IFLScience 2016.

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. Telecommunications: Information on Participation in the E-rate Program (GAO-09-254SP, March 2009), an e-supplement to GAO-09-253. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Avila B. Comparison of paternal and maternal involvement in a government funded home-based intervention program: A multivariate analysis of parent gender, child gender and age of the child. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Kenigsberg B. Teachable Moments About Corruption. New York Times 2017:C6.

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	City and Climate Interactions
ISSN (print)	2590-2520
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