How to format your references using the Climate Change Responses citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Climate Change Responses. 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. Stambolic V. Cancer: Precise control of localized signals. Nature. 2015;522:38–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Singel DJ, Stamler JS. Blood traffic control. Nature. 2004;430:297.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Spencer TJ, Osborn T, Kohl PA. Materials science. High-frequency chip connections. Science. 2008;320:756–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Park H, Park J, Lim AK, Anderson EH, Alivisatos AP, McEuen PL. Nanomechanical oscillations in a single-C60 transistor. Nature. 2000;407:57–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wootton RJ, Smith C. Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Lax PD. Calculus With Applications. 2nd ed. 2014. Terrell MS, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Harrabi I, Louati T, Lévesque M, Maier M. Testbed Design and Co-simulation of PEV Coordination Schemes Over Integrated Fiber-Wireless Smart Grid Communications Infrastructures. In: Rajakaruna S, Shahnia F, Ghosh A, editors. Plug In Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids: Integration Techniques. Singapore: Springer; 2015. p. 99–128.

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 Climate Change Responses.

Blog post

1. Davis J. The Winners And Losers At This Year’s Global Wildlife Summit [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-winners-and-losers-at-this-years-global-wildlife-summit/

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. Medicaid: Graduate Medical Education Payments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Mar. Report No.: HEHS-97-77R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Baciu AB. Biopolitics and the influenza pandemics of 1918 and 2009 in the United States: Power, immunity, and the law [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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. Wagner J. Cubs Slugger Admits He May Cry Over His Unlikely Return to Action. New York Times. 2016 Oct 26;B10.

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	Climate Change Responses
Abbreviation	Clim. Chang. Responses
ISSN (online)	2053-7565
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