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

Gong, J. P., 2014: Materials science. Materials both tough and soft. Science, 344, 161–162.

A journal article with 2 authors

Singla, V., and J. F. Reiter, 2006: The primary cilium as the cell’s antenna: signaling at a sensory organelle. Science, 313, 629–633.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kanai, T., S. Minemoto, and H. Sakai, 2005: Quantum interference during high-order harmonic generation from aligned molecules. Nature, 435, 470–474.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Badjic, J. D., V. Balzani, A. Credi, S. Silvi, and J. F. Stoddart, 2004: A molecular elevator. Science, 303, 1845–1849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis, M., J. McKimm, and K. Forrest, 2013: How to Assess Doctors and Health Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.

An edited book

Loftsson, H., E. Rögnvaldsson, and S. Helgadóttir, eds., 2010: Advances in Natural Language Processing: 7th International Conference on NLP, IceTAL 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 16-18, 2010. Springer, 448 p. 73 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Houdebine, L.-M., 2012: Transgenics transgenic(s) : Alternative Gene Transfer Methods transgenic(s) alternative gene transfer methods. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, R.A. Meyers, Ed., Springer, 10895–10923.

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., 2016: Egyptian Bats’ Calls Reveal Who They Are Talking To. IFLScience,. (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, 1993: Justice Software Management. 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

Hogg, J. H., 2014: An assessment of social vulnerability in Yuba County, California. 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

Brantley, B., and J. Green, 2017: Critics at War? Yes. But Agreeing, Too. New York Times, June 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gong 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gong 2014; Singla and Reiter 2006).

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

Two authors: (Singla and Reiter 2006)
Three or more authors: (Badjic et al. 2004)

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)