How to format your references using the American Journal of Climate Change citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Climate Change (AJCC). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

Hakim, A.M. (2014) Perspective: silent, but preventable, perils. Nature. 510 (7506), S12.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bever, T. and Montalbetti, M. (2002) Linguistics. Noam’s Ark. Science (New York, N.Y.). 298 (5598), 1565–1566.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kreiman, G., Koch, C., and Fried, I. (2000) Imagery neurons in the human brain. Nature. 408 (6810), 357–361.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Smirnova, O., Mairesse, Y., Patchkovskii, S., Dudovich, N., Villeneuve, D., Corkum, P., et al. (2009) High harmonic interferometry of multi-electron dynamics in molecules. Nature. 460 (7258), 972–977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lemma, A. (2008) Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, England.

An edited book

[1]

Slee, P.T. (2016) Well-Being, Positive Peer Relations and Bullying in School Settings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jackson, S.I. (2010) Deflagration Phenomena in Energetic Materials: An Overview. in: B.W. Asay (Ed.), Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, Vol. 5: Non-Shock Initiation of Explosives, Springer, Berlin, Heidelbergpp. 245–292.

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 American Journal of Climate Change.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E. (2016) Modern Slavery Is Destroying The Environment – To Meet Demand For Shrimps And Pet Food. IFLScience.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office (1988) Issues Related to an Independent FAA. 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

[1]

Reid, L.N. (2012) The Unintended Consequences of Narrowing Secondary Curriculum in Response to Low Standardized Test Scores, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2012.

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

[1]

Rutenberg, J. (2015) How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ben Carson? New York Times. MM44.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	American Journal of Climate Change
Abbreviation	Am. J. Clim. Change
ISSN (print)	2167-9495
ISSN (online)	2167-9509
Scope