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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Weather, Climate, and Society. 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	Download the output style file
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

Shibata, D., 2012: Cancer. Heterogeneity and tumor history. Science, 336, 304–305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seeley, R. J., and D. A. Sandoval, 2011: Neuroscience: weight loss through smoking. Nature, 475, 176–177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spracklen, D. V., S. R. Arnold, and C. M. Taylor, 2012: Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests. Nature, 489, 282–285.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Chen, I.-W. P., C.-Y. Huang, S.-H. S. Jhou, and Y.-W. Zhang, 2014: Exfoliation and performance properties of non-oxidized graphene in water. Sci. Rep., 4, 3928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, P. W., 2010: Top Hat. Wiley-Blackwell,.

An edited book

Leong, F. T. L., W. E. Pickren, M. M. Leach, and A. J. Marsella, eds., 2012: Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States. Springer, XIV, 342 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Hyysalo, J., J. Lehto, S. Aaramaa, and M. Kelanti, 2013: Supporting Cognitive Work in Software Development Workflows. Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 14th International Conference, PROFES 2013, Paphos, Cyprus, June 12-14, 2013. Proceedings, J. Heidrich, M. Oivo, A. Jedlitschka, and M.T. Baldassarre, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 20–34.

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 Weather, Climate, and Society.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2017: Fictional “Dr Fraud” Tricks Her Way Onto Pseudo-Journals’ Editorial Boards. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/fictional-dr-fraud-tricks-her-way-onto-pseudojournals-editorial-boards/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

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, 2009: Grant Monitoring: Department of Education Could Improve Its Processes with Greater Focus on Assessing Risks, Acquiring Financial Skills, and Sharing Information. U.S. Government Printing Office,.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Desam, J. R., 2017: Effective Nodal Placement in Overlay Networks Using Complexity Theory. California State University, Long Beach, .

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

Wagner, J., 2016: Backman Will Not Return as Mets’ Class AAA Manager. New York Times, September 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shibata 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Shibata 2012; Seeley and Sandoval 2011).

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

Two authors: (Seeley and Sandoval 2011)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Weather, Climate, and Society
Abbreviation	Weather Clim. Soc.
ISSN (print)	1948-8327
ISSN (online)	1948-8335
Scope	Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change Social Sciences (miscellaneous)