How to format your references using the Climate Dynamics citation style

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

Adami C (2015) Artificial intelligence: Robots with instincts. Nature 521:426–427

A journal article with 2 authors

Nordborg M, Weigel D (2008) Next-generation genetics in plants. Nature 456:720–723

A journal article with 3 authors

Holm MS, Saravanamurugan S, Taarning E (2010) Conversion of sugars to lactic acid derivatives using heterogeneous zeotype catalysts. Science 328:602–605

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Luo Y, Wan S, Hui D, Wallace LL (2001) Acclimatization of soil respiration to warming in a tall grass prairie. Nature 413:622–625

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cleaver H, Cawson P, Gorin S, Walker S (2009) Safeguarding Children. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Liu D, Zhang H, Polycarpou M, et al (eds) (2011) Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2011: 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2011, Guilin, China, May 29–June 1, 2011, Proceedings, Part III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bradley RE, Sandifer CE (2009) Determination of continuous functions of a single variable that satisfy certain conditions. In: Sandifer CE (ed) Cauchy’s Cours d’analyse: An Annotated Translation. Springer, New York, NY, pp 71–83

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 Dynamics.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Neurotransmitter Boost Has Fast-Acting Antidepressant Effects In Mice. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/neurotransmitter-boost-has-fast-acting-antidepressant-effects-in-mice/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1984) Tax Information Safeguard Activity Annual Report. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aggarwal E (2012) South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hubbard B (2017) Fitness Classes for Saudi Arabia’s Girls. New York Times A7

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Adami 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Nordborg and Weigel 2008; Adami 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Nordborg and Weigel 2008)
Three or more authors: (Luo et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climate Dynamics
Abbreviation	Clim. Dyn.
ISSN (print)	0930-7575
ISSN (online)	1432-0894
Scope	Atmospheric Science