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

Midgley M. 2001. Being objective. Nature, 410(6830): 753.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kueh HY, Mitchison TJ. 2009. Structural plasticity in actin and tubulin polymer dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5943): 960–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaochar S, Paek AL, Weinert T. 2010. Genetics. Replication error amplified. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5994): 911–913.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Quan C, Liu Y-SC, Tang H, Utescher T. 2014. Miocene shift of European atmospheric circulation from trade wind to westerlies. Scientific reports, 4: 5660.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bilbao S. 2005. Wave and Scattering Methods for Numerical Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Luo Y. 2016. Economics of Database-Assisted Spectrum Sharing. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Dixon JC. 2010. Canyonlands and Arches: Windows on Landscapes in the American Southwest. In: Migon P (ed) Geomorphological Landscapes of the World. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 39–47.

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. 2016. Titanosaur Babies Were Surprisingly Precocious. 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. 1985. Use of the Public Law 94-142 Set-Aside Shows Both the Flexibility Intended by the Law and the Need for Improved Reporting. 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

Balakrishnan G. 2017. Cognitive radio cooperative spectrum sensing. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wilson M. 2017. Prosecutors Say Chelsea Bombing Suspect Had ‘Evil in His Heart.’ New York Times, 12 October, page A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Midgley, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Midgley, 2001; Kueh and Mitchison, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kueh and Mitchison, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Quan et al., 2014)

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

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