How to format your references using the Climate citation style

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

Check, E. Report Backs Smithsonian Research. Nature 2003, 421, 198.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kourtzi, Z.; Kanwisher, N. Representation of Perceived Object Shape by the Human Lateral Occipital Complex. Science 2001, 293, 1506–1509.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dieterich, J.; Cayol, V.; Okubo, P. The Use of Earthquake Rate Changes as a Stress Meter at Kilauea Volcano. Nature 2000, 408, 457–460.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ajayan, P.M.; Terrones, M.; de la Guardia, A.; Huc, V.; Grobert, N.; Wei, B.Q.; Lezec, H.; Ramanath, G.; Ebbesen, T.W. Nanotubes in a Flash--Ignition and Reconstruction. Science 2002, 296, 705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vorbrüggen, H. Silicon-Mediated Transformations of Functional Groups; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005; ISBN 9783527603770.

An edited book

Cai, X. Optimal Stochastic Scheduling; Wu, X., Zhou, X., Eds.; International Series in Operations Research & Management Science; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2014; Vol. 207; ISBN 9781489974044.

A chapter in an edited book

Shirikyan, A. Exponential Mixing for Randomly Forced Partial Differential Equations: Method of Coupling. In Instability in Models Connected with Fluid Flows II; Bardos, C., Fursikov, A., Eds.; International Mathematical Series; Springer: New York, NY, 2008; pp. 155–188 ISBN 9780387752181.

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.

Blog post

Davis, J. Cuttlefish Can Count At A Level That Rivals Human Infants Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cuttlefish-can-count-at-a-level-that-rivals-human-infants/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office School Improvement Grants: Early Implementation Under Way, but Reforms Affected by Short Time Frames; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown, E.R. Comparison of Instructional Techniques of High School Economics Teachers in Georgia and Shenzhen, China. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2011.

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

Wasik, J.F. Regular Investing Smooths the Market’s Ups and Downs. New York Times 2016, BU14.

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
ISSN (online)	2225-1154
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