How to format your references using the Climate Services citation style

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

Abbott, A., 2003. Italians riled by science reforms. Nature 421, 465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinchen, J.M., Ravichandran, K.S., 2010. Identification of two evolutionarily conserved genes regulating processing of engulfed apoptotic cells. Nature 464, 778–782.

A journal article with 3 authors

Norris, D.J., Efros, A.L., Erwin, S.C., 2008. Doped nanocrystals. Science 319, 1776–1779.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mortezaei, N., Singh, B., Bullitt, E., Uhlin, B.E., Andersson, M., 2013. P-fimbriae in the presence of anti-PapA antibodies: new insight of antibodies action against pathogens. Sci. Rep. 3, 3393.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elliott, C.H., Smith, L.L., 2010. Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Negoita, M.G., Reusch, B. (Eds.), 2005. Real World Applications of Computational Intelligence, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Friberg, T., Labriola, L., 2010. Wide-Field Imaging and Angiography, in: Holz, F.G., Spaide, R. (Eds.), Medical Retina: Focus on Retinal Imaging, Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 27–40.

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 Services.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Mysterious Signal Detected- Could It Be From Dark Matter? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-signal-detected-could-it-be-dark-matter/ (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, 1987. Job Training Partnership Act: Summer Youth Programs Increase Emphasis on Education (No. HRD-87-101BR). 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

Scaramella, J., 2013. Physical activity and red light foods consumed in ASPIRE-VA veterans (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

Hartocollis, A., 2014. Faculty Questions NYU Langone’s Political Fund-Raising Efforts. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2003; Kinchen and Ravichandran, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kinchen and Ravichandran, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Mortezaei et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climate Services
Abbreviation	Clim. Serv.
ISSN (print)	2405-8807
Scope	Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change