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

Buffett, B.: Geomagnetic fluctuations reveal stable stratification at the top of the Earth’s core, Nature, 507, 484–487, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Portegies Zwart, S. F. and van den Heuvel, E. P. J.: A runaway collision in a young star cluster as the origin of the brightest supernova, Nature, 450, 388–389, 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Braunschweig, H., Radacki, K., and Schneider, A.: Oxoboryl complexes: boron-oxygen triple bonds stabilized in the coordination sphere of platinum, Science, 328, 345–347, 2010.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Davidson, G., Wu, W., Shen, J., Bilic, J., Fenger, U., Stannek, P., Glinka, A., and Niehrs, C.: Casein kinase 1 gamma couples Wnt receptor activation to cytoplasmic signal transduction, Nature, 438, 867–872, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pohanish, R. P. and Greene, S. A.: Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

Alford, T. L.: Fundamentals of Nanoscale Film Analysis, edited by: Feldman, L. C. and Mayer, J. W., Springer US, Boston, MA, XIV, 336 p pp., 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwartz, D. and Haider, A.: Studying Surgical Disparities: It’s Not All Black and White, in: Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research, edited by: Dimick, J. B. and Greenberg, C. C., Springer, London, 47–61, 2014.

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

This Is What Happens To Your Brain When You Don’t Sleep:

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: Comments on Use of Funds from Vending Machines, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1954.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sink, R. C.: Exploring a high school community relations and parent involvement program, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by: Arts, Briefly; Rare Violin in the Spotlight, New York Times, 21st November, E2, 2005.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buffett, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Buffett, 2014; Portegies Zwart and van den Heuvel, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Portegies Zwart and van den Heuvel, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Davidson et al., 2005)

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