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

Adami, C. (2006). Computer science. What do robots dream of? Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5802), 1093–1094.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krajcik, J. S., & Sutherland, L. M. (2010). Supporting students in developing literacy in science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5977), 456–459.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wearn, O. R., Reuman, D. C., & Ewers, R. M. (2013). Response to comment on “Extinction debt and windows of conservation opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6117), 271.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hara, M. R., Kovacs, J. J., Whalen, E. J., Rajagopal, S., Strachan, R. T., Grant, W., Towers, A. J., Williams, B., Lam, C. M., Xiao, K., Shenoy, S. K., Gregory, S. G., Ahn, S., Duckett, D. R., & Lefkowitz, R. J. (2011). A stress response pathway regulates DNA damage through β2-adrenoreceptors and β-arrestin-1. Nature, 477(7364), 349–353.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samuels, J. (2015). The Trader’s Pendulum. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Marder, S. R., & Lee, K.-S. (Eds.). (2008). Photoresponsive Polymers II (Vol. 214). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jahan, S., Sakidin, H., & Nazar, R. (2016). Simultaneous Effects of Soret and Dufour on the Unsteady Stagnation Point Flow of Micropolar Fluid Towards a Permeable Stretching Sheet. In A. Kılıçman, H. M. Srivastava, M. Mursaleen, & Z. Abdul Majid (Eds.), Recent Advances in Mathematical Sciences: Selected Papers from ICREM7 2015 (pp. 45–59). Springer.

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

Taub, B. (2016, September 19). Scientists May Have Observed Memories Being Assembled In The Brain. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-may-have-observed-memories-being-assembled-brain/

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. (1981). National Science Foundation Conflict of Interest Problems With Grants to Short Term Employees (PAD-81-16). 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

Bunkley, R. L. (2010). A mentoring program for adolescents in a placement facility: A grant proposal project [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

Kinsley, M. (2017, June 17). Trump the Transparent. New York Times, SR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Adami, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Adami, 2006; Krajcik & Sutherland, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Krajcik & Sutherland, 2010)
Three authors: (Wearn et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Hara et al., 2011)

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