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

Schilling G (2000) ASTRONOMY: The Virtual Observatory Moves Closer to Reality. Science 289:238a–9a

A journal article with 2 authors

Rizki A, Lundblad V (2001) Defects in mismatch repair promote telomerase-independent proliferation. Nature 411:713–716

A journal article with 3 authors

Djuranovic S, Nahvi A, Green R (2011) A parsimonious model for gene regulation by miRNAs. Science 331:550–553

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kleine T, Palme H, Mezger K, Halliday AN (2005) Hf-W chronometry of lunar metals and the age and early differentiation of the Moon. Science 310:1671–1674

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibe OC (2013) Elements of Random Walk and Diffusion Processes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chee YM, Guo Z, Ling S, et al (eds) (2011) Coding and Cryptology: Third International Workshop, IWCC 2011, Qingdao, China, May 30-June 3, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hicks BL (2016) Beyond This or That: Challenging the Limits of Binary Language in Elementary Education Through Poetry, Word Art, and Creative Bookmaking. In: Miller S (ed) Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth: A Queer Literacy Framework. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 81–106

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 E (2015) Pioneers Of Quantum Computing Are Among The 2015 Eureka Prize Winners. 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 (2015) Older Adults: Federal Strategy Needed to Help Ensure Efficient and Effective Delivery of Home and Community-Based Services and Supports. 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

Cuomo AP (2013) SB 48 and social media: Constituing an audience for and against California’s LGBT education legislation. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Traub J (2017) Think Locally, Act Locally. New York Times BR19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schilling 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Schilling 2000; Rizki and Lundblad 2001).

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

Two authors: (Rizki and Lundblad 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kleine 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

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