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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Stubbe, J., 2011. Biochemistry. The two faces of SAM. Science 332, 544–545.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tabin, C.J., McMahon, A.P., 2008. Developmental biology. Grasping limb patterning. Science 321, 350–352.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thakur, G., Prashanthi, K., Thundat, T., 2013. Directed self-assembly of proteins into discrete radial patterns. Sci. Rep. 3, 1923.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, R., Chen, Q., Dong, B., Yu, F., 2014. Effects of vegetative propagule pressure on the establishment of an introduced clonal plant, Hydrocotyle vulgaris. Sci. Rep. 4, 5507.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, P.G., Chan, T., 2011. The Chinese Yuan. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809.

An edited book

Lee, J., Lee, M.C., Liu, H., Ryu, J.-H. (Eds.), 2013. Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 6th International Conference, ICIRA 2013, Busan, South Korea, September 25-28, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Adamson, S.O., Kharlampidi, D.D., Dementiev, A.I., 2013. Application of the Uniformly Charged Sphere Stabilization for Calculating the Lowest 1 S Resonances of H −, in: Hotokka, M., Brändas, E.J., Maruani, J., Delgado-Barrio, G. (Eds.), Advances in Quantum Methods and Applications in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 101–118.

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., 2015. Vaccines Back In The Headlines – Here’s What The Experts Say [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vaccines-back-headlines-here-s-what-experts-say/ (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, 1973. Air Force Technology Development Underway Throughout the Aerospace Industry (No. B-179665). 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

Nunez, F.V., 2010. A study of the application of the concepts of Karen Horney in leadership development within the National Management Association of the Boeing Company (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Mumford, S., 1960. Article 6 -- No Title. New York Times MagazineSM79.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stubbe, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Stubbe, 2011; Tabin and McMahon, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Tabin and McMahon, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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