How to format your references using the Tropical Cyclone Research and Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tropical Cyclone Research and Review. 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

Padma, T.V., 2005. Strength in numbers. Nature 436, 492–493.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wrachtrup, J., Finkler, A., 2014. Applied physics: Hybrid sensors ring the changes. Nature 512, 380–381.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catani, M., Bodi, I., Dell’Acqua, F., 2012. Comment on “The geometric structure of the brain fiber pathways.” Science 337, 1605.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reineke, J., Tenzer, S., Rupnik, M., Koschinski, A., Hasselmayer, O., Schrattenholz, A., Schild, H., von Eichel-Streiber, C., 2007. Autocatalytic cleavage of Clostridium difficile toxin B. Nature 446, 415–419.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Andersson, C., Freeman, D., James, I., Johnston, A., Ljung, S., 2006. Mobile Media and Applications - From Concept to Cash. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Nieder, R., 2008. Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Qiang, H.-F., Zhong, Q.-Y., Tan, L.-L., 2012. Further Issues about Classroom Teaching of Holding a Post Education in Military Academy, in: Wang, Y. (Ed.), Education and Educational Technology, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 29–34.

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 Tropical Cyclone Research and Review.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. This Tiny Camera Could Take Real Time Images From Inside Your Arteries [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tiny-camera-could-take-real-time-images-inside-your-arteries/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. FAA Staffing: New Pay Act Offers Options to Bolster Maintenance Work Force (No. RCED-91-92). 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

Lamanna, C.A., 2012. The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Barnard, A., Gordon, M.R., 2016. Aid Convoy Is Hit in Syria as Cease-Fire Falters and Bombings Resume. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padma, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Padma, 2005; Wrachtrup and Finkler, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Wrachtrup and Finkler, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Reineke et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Tropical Cyclone Research and Review
ISSN (print)	2225-6032
Scope