How to format your references using the Theoretical and Applied Climatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theoretical and Applied 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

Bolker J (2012) Model organisms: There’s more to life than rats and flies. Nature 491:31–33

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodriguez A, Laio A (2014) Machine learning. Clustering by fast search and find of density peaks. Science 344:1492–1496

A journal article with 3 authors

Marty B, Dewonck S, France-Lanord C (2003) Geochemical evidence for efficient aquifer isolation over geological timeframes. Nature 425:55–58

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Oh SH, Kauffmann Y, Scheu C, et al (2005) Ordered liquid aluminum at the interface with sapphire. Science 310:661–663

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karamalidis AK, Dzombak DA (2010) Surface Complexation Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Molinari E (2010) Psicologia clinica del dolore. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Scher CS, Chui I, Miller SM (2014) General Principles of Intraoperative Management of the Severe Blunt or Polytrauma Patient: The Resuscitative Phase. In: Scher CS (ed) Anesthesia for Trauma: New Evidence and New Challenges. Springer, New York, NY, pp 81–105

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 Theoretical and Applied Climatology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Mesmerizing New NASA Video Shows Their Latest Rocket At Work. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1989) Computer Procurement: FAA’s $1.5-Billion Computer Resources Nucleus Project. 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

Mauger GS (2008) Synoptic sensitivities of subtropical clouds: Separating aerosol effects from meteorology. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Murphy MJO (2015) Remembering ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.’ New York Times C29

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bolker 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bolker 2012; Rodriguez and Laio 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rodriguez and Laio 2014)
Three or more authors: (Oh et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Theoretical and Applied Climatology
Abbreviation	Theor. Appl. Climatol.
ISSN (print)	0177-798X
ISSN (online)	1434-4483
Scope	Atmospheric Science