How to format your references using the Weather and Climate Extremes citation style

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

Semenza, G.L., 2007. Life with oxygen. Science 318, 62–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bruno, R.M., Sakmann, B., 2006. Cortex is driven by weak but synchronously active thalamocortical synapses. Science 312, 1622–1627.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saikia, A., Frost, D.J., Rubie, D.C., 2008. Splitting of the 520-kilometer seismic discontinuity and chemical heterogeneity in the mantle. Science 319, 1515–1518.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reeves, M.B., Davies, A.A., McSharry, B.P., Wilkinson, G.W., Sinclair, J.H., 2007. Complex I binding by a virally encoded RNA regulates mitochondria-induced cell death. Science 316, 1345–1348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, G., Wang, X., Li, X., 2014. Fundamentals of Complex Networks. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Schwabe, K., Albiac, J., Connor, J.D., Hassan, R.M., Meza González, L. (Eds.), 2013. Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Jones, M.B., Zimmermann, J., Clifton-Brown, J., 2016. Long-Term Yields and Soil Carbon Sequestration from Miscanthus: A Review, in: Barth, S., Murphy-Bokern, D., Kalinina, O., Taylor, G., Jones, M. (Eds.), Perennial Biomass Crops for a Resource-Constrained World. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–49.

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 Weather and Climate Extremes.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Droppings Reveal That Not All Tasmanian Devils Are Clones [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, 2004. Diploma Mills: Diploma Mills Are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees to Federal Employees at Government Expense (No. GAO-04-1096T). 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

Boyle, C.N., 2013. Support program for transition age youth: A grant proposal (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

Kenigsberg, B., 2016. The Listings: Film Series. New York Times C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Semenza, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bruno and Sakmann, 2006; Semenza, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bruno and Sakmann, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Reeves et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Weather and Climate Extremes
Abbreviation	Weather Clim. Extrem.
ISSN (print)	2212-0947
Scope	Atmospheric Science Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development