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

Benford, G., 2001. Where might it lead? Nature 414, 399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bercovici, D., Karato, S.-I., 2003. Whole-mantle convection and the transition-zone water filter. Nature 425, 39–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deng, H., Gerencser, A.A., Jasper, H., 2015. Signal integration by Ca(2+) regulates intestinal stem-cell activity. Nature 528, 212–217.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Usmani, A., Ganguli, Nirmalya, Sarkar, H., Dhup, S., Batta, S.R., Vimal, M., Ganguli, Nilanjana, Basu, S., Nagarajan, P., Majumdar, S.S., 2013. A non-surgical approach for male germ cell mediated gene transmission through transgenesis. Sci. Rep. 3, 3430.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pai MD FACC FRCP Edin, R.G., Varadarajan MD FACC, P., 2014. Echocardiography Board Review. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rocha, M.P., Riverola, F.F., Shatkay, H., Corchado, J.M. (Eds.), 2010. Advances in Bioinformatics: 4th International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 2010 (IWPACBB 2010), Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Nygreen, B., Haugen, K., 2010. Applied Mathematical Programming in Norwegian Petroleum Field and Pipeline Development: Some Highlights from the Last 30 Years, in: Bjørndal, E., Bjørndal, M., Pardalos, P.M., Rönnqvist, M. (Eds.), Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, Energy Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 59–69.

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

Andrew, D., 2016. Here’s What It Would Have Been Like To Be Caught In The Great Fire of London [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, 2001. Department of Education: Key Aspects of the Federal Direct Loan Program’s Cost Estimates (No. GAO-01-197). 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

Morton, W.G., 2015. Isolating mycorrhizal fungi from Spiranthes vernalis for subsequent in vitro seed germination (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. With Trump and Press: Much Heat, Little Light. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benford, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Benford, 2001; Bercovici and Karato, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Bercovici and Karato, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Usmani et al., 2013)

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