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

Sundqvist, B. (2014). Mapping intermolecular bonding in C₆₀. Scientific Reports, 4, 6171.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, M. S., & Goldstein, J. L. (2006). Biomedicine. Lowering LDL--not only how low, but how long? Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5768), 1721–1723.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Jong, P. W., van Lenteren, J. C., & Raak-van den Berg, C. L. (2013). Comment on “Invasive harlequin ladybird carries biological weapons against native competitors.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 341(6152), 1342.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kim, P. W., Sun, Z.-Y. J., Blacklow, S. C., Wagner, G., & Eck, M. J. (2003). A zinc clasp structure tethers Lck to T cell coreceptors CD4 and CD8. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5640), 1725–1728.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, L., & Keller, T. (2006). OFDM and MC-CDMA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chenneville, T. (Ed.). (2016). A Clinical Guide to Pediatric HIV: Bridging the Gaps Between Research and Practice. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kemp, R., Palmer, N., Kielmann, T., & Bal, H. (2012). Energy Efficient Information Monitoring Applications on Smartphones through Communication Offloading. In J. Y. Zhang, J. Wilkiewicz, & A. Nahapetian (Eds.), Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: Third International Conference, MobiCASE 2011, Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 24-27, 2011. Revised Selected Papers (pp. 60–79). 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

Hamilton, K. (2016, September 2). Manuka Honey Makes Bacteria Less Resistant To Antibiotics. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2008). Environmental Satellites: Polar-orbiting Satellite Acquisition Faces Delays; Decisions Needed on Whether and How to Ensure Climate Data Continuity (GAO-08-518). 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

Sponsel, H. (2010). Was sagte dieser Schiller (damals)? Schillers Antworten auf seine Kritiker nach 1945 [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

Barron, J. (2017, March 20). Teaching Web-Savvy Students to Develop Fake-News Filters. New York Times, A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sundqvist, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brown & Goldstein, 2006; Sundqvist, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Brown & Goldstein, 2006)
Three authors: (de Jong et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Kim et al., 2003)

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