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

Errico, A., 2015: Judge by actions, not words. Nature, 522, 393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karels, T. J., and R. Boonstra, 2000: Concurrent density dependence and independence in populations of arctic ground squirrels. Nature, 408, 460–463.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hastings, I. M., P. G. Bray, and S. A. Ward, 2002: Parasitology. A requiem for chloroquine. Science, 298, 74–75.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Ciccarelli, F. D., T. Doerks, C. von Mering, C. J. Creevey, B. Snel, and P. Bork, 2006: Toward automatic reconstruction of a highly resolved tree of life. Science, 311, 1283–1287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boberski, V., 2010: Community Banking Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Chibbaro, S., and J. P. Minier, eds., 2014: Stochastic Methods in Fluid Mechanics. 1st ed. Springer, IX, 165 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Pavone, P., 2009: Image Reconstruction. CT Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease, M. Fioranelli and D.A. Dowe, Eds., Springer, 37–51.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016: Memory And Attention Are Affected By Much Lower Levels Of Dehydration Than Previously Thought. IFLScience,. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/memory-and-attention-are-affected-by-much-lower-levels-of-dehydration-than-previously-thought/ (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, 1985: The Department of Education’s Actions To Collect Defaulted Student Loans. 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

Karyekar, M., 2014: Translating observation into narration: The “sentimental” anthropology of Georg Forster (1754-1794). Indiana University, .

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

Swarns, R. L., and C. Robertson, 2015: Black Church Is Target Again for Deadly Strike at the Heart. New York Times, June 20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Errico 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Errico 2015; Karels and Boonstra 2000).

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

Two authors: (Karels and Boonstra 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ciccarelli et al. 2006)

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)