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

Eisenstein M (2015) Medicine: Eyes on the target. Nature 527:S110-2

A journal article with 2 authors

Shirey PD, Lamberti GA (2011) Regulate trade in rare plants. Nature 469:465–467

A journal article with 3 authors

Parker JS, Roe SM, Barford D (2005) Structural insights into mRNA recognition from a PIWI domain-siRNA guide complex. Nature 434:663–666

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Humbles AA, Lu B, Nilsson CA, et al (2000) A role for the C3a anaphylatoxin receptor in the effector phase of asthma. Nature 406:998–1001

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walter RJ (1998) Local Emergency Planning Committee Guidebook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Islam SMN (2005) Empirical Finance: Modelling and Analysis of Emerging Financial and Stock Markets. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Alvim MS, Andrés ME, Palamidessi C (2010) Entropy and Attack Models in Information Flow. In: Calude CS, Sassone V (eds) Theoretical Computer Science: 6th IFIP TC 1/WG 2.2 International Conference, TCS 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–54

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

Andrew D (2016) Common Lumps And Bumps On And Under The Skin: What Are They? 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 (1972) Federal Manpower Training Program--GAO Conclusions and Observations. 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

Van Name J (2013) Boolean Partition Algebras. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Mazzetti M, Goldman A, Schmidt MS, Apuzzo M (2017) Killing C.I.A. Informants, China Stifled U.S. Spying. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Shirey and Lamberti 2011; Eisenstein 2015).

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

Two authors: (Shirey and Lamberti 2011)
Three or more authors: (Humbles et al. 2000)

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