How to format your references using the Current Climate Change Reports citation style

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

1. Young RF 3rd. Molecular biology. Secret weapon. Science. 2008;321:922–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zhang Y, Kalderon D. Hedgehog acts as a somatic stem cell factor in the Drosophila ovary. Nature. 2001;410:599–604.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nalley K, Johnston SA, Kodadek T. Proteolytic turnover of the Gal4 transcription factor is not required for function in vivo. Nature. 2006;442:1054–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Holzheid A, Sylvester P, O’Neill HS, Rubie DC, Palme HS. Evidence for a late chondritic veneer in the Earth’s mantle from high-pressure partitioning of palladium and platinum. Nature. 2000;406:396–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Chandrasekaran S. Health, Safety, and Environmental Management in Offshore and Petroleum Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Petit M, Montaigne E, El Hadad-Gauthier F, García Álvarez-Coque JM, Mattas K, Mili S, editors. Sustainable Agricultural Development: Challenges and Approaches in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Reynolds HR, Craig RG. Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease and Periodontal Disease. In: Craig RG, Kamer AR, editors. A Clinician’s Guide to Systemic Effects of Periodontal Diseases. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 39–51.

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 Current Climate Change Reports.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Global Extinction Rates Could Be Way Higher Than Previously Thought [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/global-extinction-rates-might-be-way-higher-previously-thought/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Restructuring Is Under Way, but Technical Challenges and Risks Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Apr. Report No.: GAO-07-498.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tu KN. Novel bivalent organophosphates as inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase — Compounds with potential for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and studies in the development of asymmetric catalytic Kabachnik-Fields reaction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

1. Kelly D. Girl Scout. New York Times. 2000 Jul 16;711.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Climate Change Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Clim. Change Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-6061
Scope