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]

Gupta S. Surgery: Diverse interventions. Nature 2015;526:S6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wilberg MJ, Miller TJ. Comment on “Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services.” Science 2007;316:1285; author reply 1285.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

del Campo A, Boshier MG, Saxena A. Bent waveguides for matter-waves: supersymmetric potentials and reflectionless geometries. Sci Rep 2014;4:5274.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Huynen L, Millar CD, Scofield RP, Lambert DM. Nuclear DNA sequences detect species limits in ancient moa. Nature 2003;425:175–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cardon A, Itmi M. New Autonomous Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Langdon P, Clarkson J, Robinson P, Lazar J, Heylighen A, editors. Designing Inclusive Systems: Designing Inclusion for Real-world Applications. London: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hachimi-Idrissi S. Monitoring in the Neurocritical Care Unit. In: Wartenberg KE, Shukri K, Abdelhak T, editors. Neurointensive Care: A Clinical Guide to Patient Safety, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 73–85.

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]

Bedell-Pearce H. We Might Be About To Ruin Sushi For You Forever. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-might-be-about-to-ruin-sushi-for-you-forever/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Status of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Muenyong-Zinner S. Care First Wound Healing Center a Business Plan. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Barry E, Kishkovsky S. Joy in Russia As a Symbol Of the Arts Reopens. New York Times 2011:A4.

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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