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

Hemingway J (2015) Malaria: Fifteen years of interventions. Nature 526:198–199

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang ZX, Schleyer PR (2001) Construction principles of “hyparenes”: families of molecules with planar pentacoordinate carbons. Science 292:2465–2469

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-David O, Rubinstein SM, Fineberg J (2010) Slip-stick and the evolution of frictional strength. Nature 463:76–79

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Contopoulos-Ioannidis DG, Alexiou GA, Gouvias TC, Ioannidis JPA (2008) Medicine. Life cycle of translational research for medical interventions. Science 321:1298–1299

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cretu O, Stewart R, Berends T (2011) Risk Management for Design and Construction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

de la Peña L (2015) The Emerging Quantum: The Physics Behind Quantum Mechanics. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kelly A, Kaczmarczyk L, Pearce C (2013) Mesh Improvement Methodology for 3D Volumes with Non-planar Surfaces. In: Jiao X, Weill J-C (eds) Proceedings of the 21st International Meshing Roundtable. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–69

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

Carpineti A (2016) Pluto Has A Puzzling X-Ray Glow. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/pluto-has-a-puzzling-x-ray-glow/. 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 (1982) Budget Authority Rescission Proposals. 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

Branch J (2017) A Case Study of Perceptions and Experiences among African-American Males Regarding College Dropout Rates in a Community College. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Greenhouse L (2006) Court Limits Protection Against Improper Entry. New York Times A28

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hemingway 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Wang and Schleyer 2001; Hemingway 2015).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Schleyer 2001)
Three or more authors: (Contopoulos-Ioannidis et al. 2008)

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