How to format your references using the Climate Policy citation style

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

Stocker, T. F. (2015). The silent services of the world ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6262), 764–765.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chyba, C. F., & Hand, K. P. (2001). Planetary science. Life without photosynthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5524), 2026–2027.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richmond, J. E., Weimer, R. M., & Jorgensen, E. M. (2001). An open form of syntaxin bypasses the requirement for UNC-13 in vesicle priming. Nature, 412(6844), 338–341.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kramer, J., Obejero-Paz, C. A., Myatt, G., Kuryshev, Y. A., Bruening-Wright, A., Verducci, J. S., & Brown, A. M. (2013). MICE models: superior to the HERG model in predicting Torsade de Pointes. Scientific Reports, 3, 2100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tapiero, C. S. (2010). Risk Finance and Asset Pricing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Droz, J.-P., Carme, B., Couppié, P., Nacher, M., & Thiéblemont, C. (Eds.). (2015). Tropical Hemato-Oncology. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Simpson, R., Hughes, J., & Slutskaya, N. (2016). White Working Class Masculinities and Dirty Work. In J. Hughes & N. Slutskaya (Eds.), Gender, Class and Occupation: Working Class Men doing Dirty Work (pp. 85–103). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Policy.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, August 8). Scientists Fail To Find Mysterious New Type Of Neutrino. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-fail-to-find-mysterious-new-type-of-neutrino/

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. (1993). Transportation Infrastructure: Implementation of Funding Flexibility Under ISTEA and Use of Transportation Control Measures (T-RCED-94-50). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lieberman, V. (2012). One yard shy of empowerment: Cinematic portrayals of female athletes [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Loomis, G. (2012, October 23). One “Lulu” Has Little New to Say, While Another Can Do No Wrong. New York Times, 0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocker, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Chyba & Hand, 2001; Stocker, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chyba & Hand, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kramer et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climate Policy
Abbreviation	Clim. Policy
ISSN (print)	1469-3062
ISSN (online)	1752-7457
Scope	Atmospheric Science General Environmental Science