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 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

Huang, A.S.-H. Follow Your Nose. Nature 2004, 428, 221–222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pasparakis, M.; Vandenabeele, P. Necroptosis and Its Role in Inflammation. Nature 2015, 517, 311–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunte, C.; Zickermann, V.; Brandt, U. Functional Modules and Structural Basis of Conformational Coupling in Mitochondrial Complex I. Science 2010, 329, 448–451.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cui, L.; Wang, P.; Chen, X.; Fang, Y.; Zhang, Z.; Sun, M. Plasmon-Driven Dimerization via S-S Chemical Bond in an Aqueous Environment. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7221.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glover, F.; Klingman, D.; Phillips, N.V. Network Models in Optimization and Their Applications in Practice; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 1992; ISBN 9781118033173.

An edited book

Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 9th International Conference, AMDO 2016, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings; Perales, F.J., Kittler, J., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 9756; ISBN 9783319417776.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharma, A.; Srivastava, J.; Kumar, A. A Comprehensive Overview of Renewable Energy Status in India. In Environmental Sustainability: Role of Green Technologies; Thangavel, P., Sridevi, G., Eds.; Springer India: New Delhi, 2015; pp. 91–105 ISBN 9788132220558.

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

O`Callaghan, J. SpaceX Launches And Lands A Rocket For The First Time In Five Months (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 Special Education: Additional Assistance and Better Coordination Needed among Education Offices to Help States Meet the NCLBA Teacher Requirements; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2004;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zaegel, B.M. An Evaluation of the School-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support Check In/Check Out Behavior Education Program. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO, 2012.

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

Savodnik, P. If They Build It, Will The Kardashians Come? New York Times 2013, MM32.

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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