How to format your references using the City and Climate Interactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for City and Climate Interactions. 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]

Austin J. The class of 2005. United States: two scientists and a baby. Science 2005;310:518–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Singh BP, Cowie AL. Long-term influence of biochar on native organic carbon mineralisation in a low-carbon clayey soil. Sci Rep 2014;4:3687.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thompson JK, Rainville S, Pritchard DE. Cyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces. Nature 2004;430:58–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kumar PR, Yu Y, Sternglanz R, Johnston SA, Joshua-Tor L. NADP regulates the yeast GAL induction system. Science 2008;319:1090–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mashadi B, Crolla D. Vehicle Powertrain Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Nepomnyashchy A. Interfacial Convection in Multilayer Systems. vol. 179. 2nd ed. 2012. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Goethals M. Back to Earth: “Common Sense” in the Management of Heart Failure. In: Bartunek J, Vanderheyden M, editors. Translational Approach to Heart Failure, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 119–25.

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 City and Climate Interactions.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Ten Bizarre Animals You’ve Never Heard Of. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ten-weird-animals-you-ve-never-seen/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Information Technology Reform: Agencies Need to Increase Their Use of Incremental Development Practices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sindel J. Vulnerability towards disordered eating in students registered in general education nutrition classes. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Shpigel B. Soccer Gets a Second Look. New York Times 2017:B8.

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	City and Climate Interactions
ISSN (print)	2590-2520
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