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

Barouch DH (2008) Challenges in the development of an HIV-1 vaccine. Nature 455:613–619

A journal article with 2 authors

John B, Hunter CA (2008) Immunology. Neutrophil soldiers or Trojan Horses? Science 321:917–918

A journal article with 3 authors

Gros J, Serralbo O, Marcelle C (2009) WNT11 acts as a directional cue to organize the elongation of early muscle fibres. Nature 457:589–593

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Foster MA, Turner AC, Sharping JE, et al (2006) Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip. Nature 441:960–963

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ndjountche T (2016) Digital Electronics 3. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Klein F (2008) The Theory of the Top. Volume 1: Introduction to the Kinematics and Kinetics of the Top. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Orr HT (2006) Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1. In: Fisch GS, Flint J (eds) Transgenic and Knockout Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 87–99

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

Davis J (2016) Bornean Orangutans Now Considered Critically Endangered. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bornean-orangutans-now-considered-critically-endangered/. 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 (1996) Telecommunications: Competitive Impact of Restructuring the International Satellite Organizations. 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

Kent L (2017) Justification-Suppression of Gender and Race Bias in Hiring: The Impact of Accountability. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Kepner T (2017) A Racist Gesture Results in a Delayed Punishment. New York Times SP3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barouch 2008).
This sentence cites two references (John and Hunter 2008; Barouch 2008).

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

Two authors: (John and Hunter 2008)
Three or more authors: (Foster et al. 2006)

About the journal

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