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

Janssen MA (2012) Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012). Nature 487:172.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu H, Siegel RM (2011) Medicine. Progranulin resolves inflammation. Science 332:427–428.

A journal article with 3 authors

Joo W, Hippenmeyer S, Luo L (2014) Neurodevelopment. Dendrite morphogenesis depends on relative levels of NT-3/TrkC signaling. Science 346:626–629.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dasgupta S, Rajapakshe K, Zhu B, Nikolai BC, Yi P, Putluri N, Choi JM, Jung SY, Coarfa C, Westbrook TF, Zhang XH-F, Foulds CE, Tsai SY, Tsai M-J, O’Malley BW (2018) Metabolic enzyme PFKFB4 activates transcriptional coactivator SRC-3 to drive breast cancer. Nature 556:249–254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Estampe D (2014) Supply Chain Performance and Evaluation Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chiariglione L (ed) (2012) The MPEG Representation of Digital Media, 1st ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Duarte E (2012) The Way of Lao-Tzu. In: Being and Learning: A Poetic Phenomenology of Education. Duarte EM (ed) SensePublishers, Rotterdam, p 45–67

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

Davis J (2015) US Beekeepers Lost 40% Of Bees Last Year Alone. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/american-beekeepers-lost-40-bees-last-year-alone/ (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 (1988) Production and Quality of Education Information. 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

Li X (2008) Two essays on “mining market basket data: Models and applications in marketing”. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC

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

Kelly C (2009) Skate, Sure, But Don’t Expect A Zamboni. New York Times:LI7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Janssen 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Wu & Siegel 2011, Janssen 2012).

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

Two authors: (Wu & Siegel 2011)
Three or more authors: (Dasgupta et al. 2018)

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