How to format your references using the Climate Change Responses citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Climate Change Responses. 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. Tokura Y. Materials science. Multiferroics as quantum electromagnets. Science. 2006;312:1481–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Xavier RJ, Podolsky DK. Unravelling the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature. 2007;448:427–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Takayanagi M, Kurisaki I, Nagaoka M. Non-site-specific allosteric effect of oxygen on human hemoglobin under high oxygen partial pressure. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4601.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lee DM, Friend DS, Gurish MF, Benoist C, Mathis D, Brenner MB. Mast cells: a cellular link between autoantibodies and inflammatory arthritis. Science. 2002;297:1689–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. You H, Jianjuan X, Xin G. Radar Data Processing with Applications. Singapore: John Wiley &;#38; Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Sergi A. ’Ndrangheta: The Glocal Dimensions of the Most Powerful Italian Mafia. Lavorgna A, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jomaah J, Ghibaudo G. Low Frequency Noise in Double-Gate SOI CMOS Devices. In: Amara A, Rozeau O, editors. Planar Double-Gate Transistor: From Technology to Circuit. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 89–104.

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 Climate Change Responses.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. New Research Sheds Light On Underlying Mechanism Of Multiple Sclerosis [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-find-rogue-white-blood-cell-contributes-multiple-sclerosis/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. What Every Auditor Should Know About Computer Information Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Jun. Report No.: 130454.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Correa L. Urban-rural differences in overweight and obese status among adolescents [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Qiu L. Does Amazon Pay Tax? Yes. New York Times. 2017 Aug 16;B3.

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	Climate Change Responses
Abbreviation	Clim. Chang. Responses
ISSN (online)	2053-7565
Scope