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

Botvinick M (2004) Neuroscience. Probing the neural basis of body ownership. Science 305:782–783.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kreitzer AC, Malenka RC (2007) Endocannabinoid-mediated rescue of striatal LTD and motor deficits in Parkinson’s disease models. Nature 445:643–647.

A journal article with 3 authors

Erol V, Ozaydin F, Altintas AA (2014) Analysis of entanglement measures and LOCC maximized quantum Fisher information of general two qubit systems. Sci Rep 4:5422.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vik JO, Stenseth NC, Tavecchia G, Mysterud A, Lingjaerde OC (2004) Ecology: living in synchrony on Greenland coasts? Nature 427:697–8; discussion 698.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Packard A (2010) Digital Media Law. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

West RV, Colvin AC (eds) (2014) The Patellofemoral Joint in the Athlete. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Sharma M, Moulder JE (2013) The Urine Proteome as a Radiation Biodosimeter. In: Radiation Proteomics: The effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation on cells and tissues. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Leszczynski D (ed) Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, p 87–100

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

Hale T (2015) Spectacular Images From Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition Released. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photo-bee-eye-wins-nikons-small-world-microphotography-prize/ (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 (1999) Federal Judiciary: Information on the Weighted Filings Assigned to Senior District and Magistrate Judges in Fiscal Year 1997 in 21 District Courts. 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

Johnson R (2010) Grounding theatricality in reality: The creation of the role of Suzie in “Current Nobody”. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

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

Walsh MW (2016) A Sour Surprise for Public Pensions. New York Times:BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Botvinick 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Botvinick 2004, Kreitzer & Malenka 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kreitzer & Malenka 2007)
Three authors: (Erol et al. 2014)
99 or more authors: (Vik et al. 2004)

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