How to format your references using the Climate Risk Management citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Russo, E., 2003. Grant schemes supporting scientific entrepreneurs have induced job growth in the United States, but they haven’t yet crossed the Atlantic, says Eugene Russo. Nature 425, 988–989.
A journal article with 2 authors
Chen, M.S., White, M.C., 2007. A predictably selective aliphatic C-H oxidation reaction for complex molecule synthesis. Science 318, 783–787.
A journal article with 3 authors
Wood, B.J., Walter, M.J., Wade, J., 2006. Accretion of the Earth and segregation of its core. Nature 441, 825–833.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Chandra, V., Huang, P., Hamuro, Y., Raghuram, S., Wang, Y., Burris, T.P., Rastinejad, F., 2008. Structure of the intact PPAR-gamma-RXR- nuclear receptor complex on DNA. Nature 456, 350–356.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Russell, L.C.R., Hodgetts, C.T.J., Mahoney, C.P.F., Castle, N., 2010. Disaster Rules. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.
An edited book
Kyung, C.-M. (Ed.), 2015. Smart Sensors for Health and Environment Monitoring, KAIST Research Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.
A chapter in an edited book
Overmann, J., 2006. Principles of Enrichment, Isolation, Cultivation and Preservation of Prokaryotes, in: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, K.-H., Stackebrandt, E. (Eds.), The Prokaryotes: Volume 1: Symbiotic Associations, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 80–136.

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 Risk Management.

Blog post
Hale, T., 2017. Some Old (And Very Important) Mold Just Sold For $14,617 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/some-old-and-very-important-mold-just-sold-for-14617/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2007. Transportation Security: Efforts to Strengthen Aviation and Surface Transportation Security are Under Way, but Challenges Remain (No. GAO-08-140T). 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
Batson, G., 2008. Head Start and at -risk students: Perceptions of administrators, practitioners, and parents (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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
Hodara, S., 2016. Art With an Inflated Sense of Itself. New York Times WE9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russo, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Chen and White, 2007; Russo, 2003).

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

  • Two authors: (Chen and White, 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Chandra et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal titleClimate Risk Management
AbbreviationClim. Risk Manag.
ISSN (print)2212-0963
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