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

Schlessinger, J. Common and Distinct Elements in Cellular Signaling via EGF and FGF Receptors. Science 2004, 306, 1506–1507.

A journal article with 2 authors

Szalay, A.; Gray, J. 2020 Computing: Science in an Exponential World. Nature 2006, 440, 413–414.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richmond, B.J.; Liu, Z.; Shidara, M. Neuroscience. Predicting Future Rewards. Science 2003, 301, 179–180.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stone, M.D.; Mihalusova, M.; O’connor, C.M.; Prathapam, R.; Collins, K.; Zhuang, X. Stepwise Protein-Mediated RNA Folding Directs Assembly of Telomerase Ribonucleoprotein. Nature 2007, 446, 458–461.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shafer, G.; Vovk, V. Probability and Finance: It’s Only a Game!; Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471249696.

An edited book

Kuntz, E. Hepatology Textbook and Atlas: History · Morphology Biochemistry · Diagnostics Clinic · Therapy; Kuntz, H.-D., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; ISBN 9783540768388.

A chapter in an edited book

Ditcheva, B.; Dicheva, D. Visual Browsing and Editing of Topic Map-Based Learning Repositories. In Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps: Second International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2006, Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, 2006, Revised Selected Papers; Maicher, L., Sigel, A., Garshol, L.M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; pp. 44–55 ISBN 9783540719441.

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

Andrew, E. Oddball Animal Friendships Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oddball-animal-friendships/ (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 State Department: The July 2006 Evacuation of American Citizens from Lebanon; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith, B.L. A Qualitative Study of Veteran Students’ Perspectives of Their Academic Experiences. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida: Tampa, FL, 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

de la MERCED, M.J. Atlanta Firm Lures Veteran Deal Maker Back to Law. New York Times 2017, B5.

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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