How to format your references using the Climate Research citation style

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

Schneider MD (2011) Development. A cardiac nonproliferation treaty. Science 332:426–427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenberg C, Goldhirsch I (2005) Friction enhances elasticity in granular solids. Nature 435:188–191.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nieder A, Freedman DJ, Miller EK (2002) Representation of the quantity of visual items in the primate prefrontal cortex. Science 297:1708–1711.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Carilli CL, Lewis GF, Djorgovski SG, Mahabal A, Cox P, Bertoldi F, Omont A (2003) A molecular Einstein ring: imaging a starburst disk surrounding a quasi-stellar object. Science 300:773–775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’homme R (2012) Flows and Chemical Reactions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chen S-J (2012) Reconfigurable Networks-on-Chip. Lan Y-C, Tsai W-C, Hu Y-H (eds) Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Nicola F, Rodino L (2010) Γ-Pseudo-Differential Operators and H-Polynomials. In: Global Pseudo-Differential Calculus on Euclidean Spaces. Rodino L (ed) Birkhäuser, Basel, p 67–127

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 Research.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Hubble Detects Faint Galaxy. https://www.iflscience.com/space/even-faint-galaxies-are-no-match-hubble/ (accessed 30 October 2018)

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 (2013) Aviation Security: TSA Should Limit Future Funding for Behavior Detection Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schutt R (2010) Topics in model-based population inference. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, New York, NY

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

Times TNY (2016) What Else Is on the Ballot in the U.S.? Minimum Wage, Death Penalty and Guns. New York Times:A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schneider 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Goldenberg & Goldhirsch 2005, Schneider 2011).

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

Two authors: (Goldenberg & Goldhirsch 2005)
Three authors: (Nieder et al. 2002)
99 or more authors: (Carilli et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climate Research
Abbreviation	Clim. Res.
ISSN (print)	0936-577X
ISSN (online)	1616-1572
Scope	Atmospheric Science General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry