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

Bloom P. Behavior. Can a dog learn a word? Science. 2004 Jun 11;304(5677):1605–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roxburgh SH, Mokany K. Comment on “From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity.” Science. 2007 Jun 8;316(5830):1425; author reply 1425.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholz H, Franz M, Heberlein U. The hangover gene defines a stress pathway required for ethanol tolerance development. Nature. 2005 Aug 11;436(7052):845–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jackson RB, Berthrong ST, Cook CW, Jobbágy EG, McCulley RL. Comment on “A reservoir of nitrate beneath desert soils.” Science. 2004 Apr 2;304(5667):51; author reply 51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neff DJ, Moss RC. The Future of Nonprofits. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Reingold O, editor. Theory of Cryptography: 6th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 15-17, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. XI, 615 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5444).

A chapter in an edited book

Rashid F, Feng F, Rashid A. Community Perceptions of Ecological Disturbances Caused During Terrorists Invasion and Counter-Insurgency Operations in Swat, Pakistan. In: Oswald Spring Ú, Brauch HG, Serrano Oswald SE, Bennett J, editors. Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 91–105. (The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science).

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

O`Callaghan J. Life “Not As We Know It” Could Exist On Mars, Titan And Other Worlds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/life-not-we-know-it-could-exist-mars-titan-and-other-worlds/

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. Highway Safety: Factors Affecting Involvement in Vehicle Crashes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Oct. Report No.: PEMD-95-3.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Siani JM. Costs and benefits of cooperative infant care in wild golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

Wagner J. Harper’s Return Gives Nationals a Timely Boost. New York Times. 2017 Sep 27;B13.

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