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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Inguscio, M., 2003. Physics. How to freeze out collisions. Science 300, 1671–1673.
A journal article with 2 authors
Schneider, R., Persson, S., 2015. PLANT SCIENCE. Another brick in the wall. Science 350, 156–157.
A journal article with 3 authors
Yin, J., Yang, X., Zheng, Y., 2014. Influence of increasing combustion temperature on the AMS 14C dating of modern crop phytoliths. Sci. Rep. 4, 6511.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Katayama, I., Hirauchi, K.-I., Michibayashi, K., Ando, J.-I., 2009. Trench-parallel anisotropy produced by serpentine deformation in the hydrated mantle wedge. Nature 461, 1114–1117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Kadane, J.B., Schum, D.A., 1997. A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence: Kadane/A Probabilistic, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Marsden, J.E., Ratiu, T.S. (Eds.), 2005. The Breadth of Symplectic and Poisson Geometry: Festschrift in Honor of Alan Weinstein, Progress in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.
A chapter in an edited book
Amati, L., Pugliese, V., Jirillo, E., 2008. Other Microbial Components Associated with Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Their Effects on Interferon-α/Ribavirin Treatment, in: Jirillo, E. (Ed.), Hepatitis C Virus Disease: Immunobiology and Clinical Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 87–105.

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
Fang, J., 2014. Parasites Prefer Gigantic, Castrated Water Fleas [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, 2002. Homeland Security: OMB’s Temporary Cessation of Information Technology Funding for New Investments (No. GAO-03-186T). 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
Van Exel, L.M., 2012. Applying database refactoring techniques to procedural SQL (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
Schwartz, J., 2016. Large Funds Are Dropping Investments in Fossil Fuels. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Inguscio, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Inguscio, 2003; Schneider and Persson, 2015).

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

  • Two authors: (Schneider and Persson, 2015)
  • Three or more authors: (Katayama et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal titleWeather and Climate Extremes
AbbreviationWeather Clim. Extrem.
ISSN (print)2212-0947
ScopeAtmospheric Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Geography, Planning and Development

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