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. Milburn GJ. Physics. Demonstrating uncertainty. Science. 2013;339:770–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Berry A, Browne J. The other beetle-hunter. Nature. 2008;453:1188–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wallis JD, Anderson KC, Miller EK. Single neurons in prefrontal cortex encode abstract rules. Nature. 2001;411:953–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Polovinkin L, Hassaine G, Perot J, Neumann E, Jensen AA, Lefebvre SN, et al. Conformational transitions of the serotonin 5-HT3 receptor. Nature. 2018;563:275–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Clarke A, Thompson A, Jenkinson E, Rumsey N, Newell R. CBT for Appearance Anxiety. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

1. Issar AS, editor. Progressive Development: To Mitigate the Negative Impact of Global Warming on the Semi-arid Regions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dana RH, Allen J. Transitions Integrating Research and Practice. In: Dana RH, Allen J, editors. Cultural Competency Training in a Global Society. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 67–78.

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. Fang J. Mystery Of How The Egyptians Moved Pyramid Stones Solved. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Excluded Parties List System: Suspended and Debarred Businesses and Individuals Improperly Receive Federal Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Feb. Report No.: GAO-09-174.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ashrafzadeh MH. Provision of community services for the mentally challenged population in Iran [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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. GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF. Comic Book Writer Accused of Plagiarism. New York Times. 2010 Mar 3;C2.

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

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