How to format your references using the Urban Climate citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Urban Climate. 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

Lieberman Aiden, E., 2011. GE Prize essay. Zoom! Science 334, 1222–1223.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pandey, A., Mann, M., 2000. Proteomics to study genes and genomes. Nature 405, 837–846.

A journal article with 3 authors

King, G., Pan, J., Roberts, M.E., 2014. Political science. Reverse-engineering censorship in China: randomized experimentation and participant observation. Science 345, 1251722.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fuchs, G.D., Dobrovitski, V.V., Toyli, D.M., Heremans, F.J., Awschalom, D.D., 2009. Gigahertz dynamics of a strongly driven single quantum spin. Science 326, 1520–1522.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beach, D., 1996. The Responsible Conduct of Research. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Jayakumar, R., Prabaharan, M., Muzzarelli, R.A.A. (Eds.), 2011. Chitosan for Biomaterials II, Advances in Polymer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Uzé, G., Schreiber, G., Piehler, J., Pellegrini, S., 2007. The Receptor of the Type I Interferon Family, in: Pitha, P.M. (Ed.), Interferon: The 50th Anniversary, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 71–95.

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 Urban Climate.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2017. Astronomers Have Seen The Farthest Blazars Yet [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1978. Review of ROTC Consortium Agreement (No. FPCD-78-17). 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

Dill, K.D., 2012. Nonparametric alternative to Poly-k test in animal tumorigenicity studies (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kovaleski, S.F., 2016. Tracking an Elusive Diary From Hitler’s Inner Circle. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lieberman Aiden, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lieberman Aiden, 2011; Pandey and Mann, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Pandey and Mann, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Fuchs et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Urban Climate
Abbreviation	Urban Clim.
ISSN (print)	2212-0955
Scope	Atmospheric Science Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies