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. Field CB. Global change. Sharing the garden. Science. 2001;294:2490–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Garrett S, Rosenthal JJC. RNA editing underlies temperature adaptation in K+ channels from polar octopuses. Science. 2012;335:848–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wohlgemuth S, Ronacher B, Wehner R. Ant odometry in the third dimension. Nature. 2001;411:795–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nakamura I, Yoshihiro T, Inagawa H, Fujiyoshi S, Matsushita M. Spectroscopy of single Pr3+ ion in LaF3 crystal at 1.5 K. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7364.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Razik H. Handbook of Asynchronous Machine with Variable Speed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Sarma M. Phoneme-Based Speech Segmentation using Hybrid Soft Computing Framework. Sarma KK, editor. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Katz M, Shaikovsky I. Rich Input and Select Components. In: Shaikovsky I, editor. Practical RichFaces. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011. p. 95–132.

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. O`Callaghan J. Orbital Antares Rocket Lifts Off Two Years After Disastrous Explosion [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/orbital-antares-rocket-lifts-off-two-years-after-explosion/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership and Effective Partnerships Needed to Reduce Likelihood of Adverse Impact. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Sep. Report No.: T-AIMD-98-277.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McGrew C. Living with Diabetes: The Value of Everyday Communication [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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 DA. Overseas, the Shock of the Surcharge. New York Times. 2006 Feb 19;56.

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