How to format your references using the International Journal of Climatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Climatology. 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

Ralph DC. 2011. The electromotive force of MnAs nanoparticles. Nature, 474(7350): E6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roxburgh SH, Mokany K. 2007. Comment on “From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5830): 1425; author reply 1425.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pierce JL, Meyer GA, Jull AJT. 2004. Fire-induced erosion and millennial-scale climate change in northern ponderosa pine forests. Nature, 432(7013): 87–90.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schmidt MWI, Torn MS, Abiven S, Dittmar T, Guggenberger G, Janssens IA, Kleber M, Kögel-Knabner I, Lehmann J, Manning DAC, Nannipieri P, Rasse DP, Weiner S, Trumbore SE. 2011. Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property. Nature, 478(7367): 49–56.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paschedag AR. 2004. CFD in der Verfahrenstechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Wang Z. 2014. Simultaneous Multi-Pollutants Removal in Flue Gas by Ozone. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Pedrini LA. 2013. Techniques and Kinetics of Hemodiafiltration. In: Azar AT (ed) Modeling and Control of Dialysis Systems: Volume 2: Biofeedback Systems and Soft Computing Techniques of Dialysis. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 1011–1078.

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 International Journal of Climatology.

Blog post

Fang J. 2015. Methane-Based Life Forms Could Exist On Titan. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1974. The Cost Of Aerospace Ground Equipment Could Be Reduced. 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

Glazer K. 2015. Imagining a constructionist game-based pedagogical model: Using tabletop role-playing game creation to enhance literature education in high school English classes. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA, Pepperdine 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

Vecsey G. 2011. Defections Fuel A Complicated Rivalry. New York Times, 14 January, page B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ralph, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Roxburgh and Mokany, 2007; Ralph, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Roxburgh and Mokany, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Schmidt et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Climatology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Climatol.
ISSN (print)	0899-8418
ISSN (online)	1097-0088
Scope	Atmospheric Science