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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Cooper TA. Molecular biology. Neutralizing toxic RNA. Science. 2009 Jul 17;325(5938):272–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Munshi NV, Olson EN. Translational medicine. Improving cardiac rhythm with a biological pacemaker. Science. 2014 Jul 18;345(6194):268–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watson EB, Thomas JB, Cherniak DJ. 40Ar retention in the terrestrial planets. Nature. 2007 Sep 20;449(7160):299–304.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pommier A, Anaparthy N, Memos N, Kelley ZL, Gouronnec A, Yan R, et al. Unresolved endoplasmic reticulum stress engenders immune-resistant, latent pancreatic cancer metastases. Science. 2018 Jun 15;360(6394).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castillo E, Cobo A, Jubete F, Pruneda RE. Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.

An edited book

Lima R, Imai Y, Ishikawa T, Oliveira MSN, editors. Visualization and Simulation of Complex Flows in Biomedical Engineering. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. VIII, 240 p. 111 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics; vol. 12).

A chapter in an edited book

Mobilio S. Introduction to Matter Radiation Interaction. In: Mobilio S, Boscherini F, Meneghini C, editors. Synchrotron Radiation: Basics, Methods and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 107–43.

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. A Piece Of Space Junk Has Punched A Hole In A European Satellite [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/piece-space-junk-punched-hole-european-satellite/

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. Federal Communications Commission: Installment Payment Financing for Personal Communications Services (PCS) Licensees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Sep. Report No.: OGC-00-67.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fine JG. Magical Transformation or Illusion of Grandeur: The Development of Downtown West Palm Beach, 1985-2015 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 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

Rashbaum WK, Schwirtz M. Amid Rikers Chaos, Jails Chief Often Left Town. New York Times. 2017 Apr 28;A1.

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