How to format your references using the Climate of the Past citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Climate of the Past. 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	Download the output style file
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

Konner, M.: Weaving life’s pattern, Nature, 418, 279, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMurray, M. A. and Gottschling, D. E.: An age-induced switch to a hyper-recombinational state, Science, 301, 1908–1911, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitmire, E., Khan, B., and Coué, M.: Cdc6 synthesis regulates replication competence in Xenopus oocytes, Nature, 419, 722–725, 2002.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Lewis, A. C., Carslaw, N., Marriott, P. J., Kinghorn, R. M., Morrison, P., Lee, A. L., Bartle, K. D., and Pilling, M. J.: A larger pool of ozone-forming carbon compounds in urban atmospheres, Nature, 405, 778–781, 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blume, S. W.: High Voltage Protection for Telecommunications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Bourdin, B.: The Variational Approach to Fracture, edited by: Francfort, G. A. and Marigo, J.-J., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, X, 164 p pp., 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Delaët, S., Ducourthial, B., and Tixeuil, S.: Self-stabilization with r-Operators Revisited, in: Self-Stabilizing Systems: 7th International Symposium, SSS 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 26-27, 2005. Proceedings, edited by: Tixeuil, S. and Herman, T., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 68–80, 2005.

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 of the Past.

Blog post

Scientists Watch As Wasps Diverge To Become Separate Species:

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: Core Competencies in Financial Management for Information Technology Personnel in the Federal Government (Exposure Draft), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Satam, G. C.: The mechanical engineering approach for three dimensional modeling procedure and measurements of the heart anatomy, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Goodstein, L. and Shear, M. D.: Trump’s Order on Religious Liberty Pleases Some, but Lets Down Conservatives, New York Times, 4th May, A22, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Konner, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Konner, 2002; McMurray and Gottschling, 2003).

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

Two authors: (McMurray and Gottschling, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lewis et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climate of the Past
Abbreviation	Clim. Past
ISSN (print)	1814-9324
ISSN (online)	1814-9332
Scope	Palaeontology Stratigraphy Global and Planetary Change