How to format your references using the Climatic Change citation style

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

May M (2014) Statistics: Attacking an epidemic. Nature 509:S50-1

A journal article with 2 authors

Li A, Yong X (2014) Entanglement guarantees emergence of cooperation in quantum prisoner’s dilemma games on networks. Sci Rep 4:6286

A journal article with 3 authors

Whiting MF, Bradler S, Maxwell T (2003) Loss and recovery of wings in stick insects. Nature 421:264–267

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wild P, Farhan H, McEwan DG, et al (2011) Phosphorylation of the autophagy receptor optineurin restricts Salmonella growth. Science 333:228–233

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McPhee P (2012) A Companion to the French Revolution. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford

An edited book

Jha NK, Chen D (eds) (2011) Nanoelectronic Circuit Design. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Trabucchi M, Briata P, Filipowicz W, et al (2010) KSRP Promotes the Maturation of a Group of miRNA Precuresors. In: Großhans H (ed) Regulation of microRNAs. Springer US, New York, NY, pp 36–42

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 Climatic Change.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Earliest Evidence Of Human Impact On Geological Processes Is 11,500 Years Old. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earliest-evidence-of-human-impact-on-geological-processes-dates-to-11500-years-ago/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1991) Immigrant Education: Information on the Emergency Immigrant Education Act Program. 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

Shimazoe J (2012) The power of forgotten opinions: Why an organization chooses inaction over the public’s safety. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Feeney K (2010) Burgers With Attitude. New York Times NJ9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May 2014).
This sentence cites two references (May 2014; Li and Yong 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li and Yong 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wild et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climatic Change
Abbreviation	Clim. Change
ISSN (print)	0165-0009
ISSN (online)	1573-1480
Scope	Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change