How to format your references using the Climacteric citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Climacteric. 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

Abbott A. How to make it in Moscow. Nature. 2007 Aug 30;448(7157):983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neels JG, Olefsky JM. Cell signaling. A new way to burn fat. Science. 2006 Jun 23;312(5781):1756–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ladet S, David L, Domard A. Multi-membrane hydrogels. Nature. 2008 Mar 6;452(7183):76–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhu Z, Guan S, Robinson D, El Fezzazi H, Quimby A, Xu SY. Characterization of cleavage intermediate and star sites of RM.Tth111II. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan 23;4:3838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karmakar NC, Kalansuriya P, Azim RE, Koswatta R. Chipless Radio Frequency Identification Reader Signal Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Dincer I, Hepbasli A, Midilli A, Karakoc TH, editors. Global Warming: Engineering Solutions. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010. XIII, 685 p. 50 illus. (Green Energy and Technology).

A chapter in an edited book

Simpson R, Hughes J, Slutskaya N. White Working Class Masculinities and Dirty Work. In: Hughes J, Slutskaya N, editors. Gender, Class and Occupation: Working Class Men doing Dirty Work. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 85–103.

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 Climacteric.

Blog post

Andrew E. Highest Carbon Dioxide Levels In 800,000 Years [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/highest-carbon-dioxide-levels-800000-years/

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

Government Accountability Office. Mass Transit: FTA’s New Starts Commitments for Fiscal Year 2003. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Apr. Report No.: GAO-02-603.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lavin EE. Discourse in monolingual and bilingual non-trial hearings [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2015.

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

Schilling MK. A Sense of Place. New York Times. 2017 Apr 17;M2100.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Climacteric
Abbreviation	Climacteric
ISSN (print)	1369-7137
ISSN (online)	1473-0804
Scope	General Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology