How to format your references using the Climate of the Past citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Climate of the Past. 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 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

Smaglik, P.: Small world, big opportunities, Nature, 418, 4–6, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rabinowitz, J. D. and White, E.: Autophagy and metabolism, Science, 330, 1344–1348, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rychert, C. A., Fischer, K. M., and Rondenay, S.: A sharp lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary imaged beneath eastern North America, Nature, 436, 542–545, 2005.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Bakal, C., Aach, J., Church, G., and Perrimon, N.: Quantitative morphological signatures define local signaling networks regulating cell morphology, Science, 316, 1753–1756, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soprano, A.: Liquidity Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

Konstantinidis, S. (Ed.): Implementation and Application of Automata: 18th International Conference, CIAA 2013, Halifax, NS, Canada, July 16-19, 2013. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIV, 358 p. 78 illus p., 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Rapaka, S., Mansi, T., Georgescu, B., Pop, M., Wright, G. A., Kamen, A., and Comaniciu, D.: LBM-EP: Lattice-Boltzmann Method for Fast Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulation from 3D Images, in: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2012: 15th International Conference, Nice, France, October 1-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part II, edited by: Ayache, N., Delingette, H., Golland, P., and Mori, K., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 33–40, 2012.

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 of the Past.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Catalog Of Life’s Colors Created To Assist The Hunt For Extraterrestrial Life, https://www.iflscience.com/space/catalog-lifes-colors-created-assist-hunt-extraterrestrial-life/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2015., 2015.

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: Government Programs and Organization Affecting Exports, ID-79-41, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Patrick, N. S.: Employees’ Perceptions of Employers’ Response After Workplace Injury, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2010.

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

Chapman, M. M. and Vlasic, B.: Strong Domestic Sales Help Lift Chrysler’s Results, , New York Times31st JulyB3, 2012.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Rabinowitz and White, 2010; Smaglik, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Rabinowitz and White, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Bakal et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climate of the Past
Abbreviation	Clim. Past
ISSN (print)	1814-9324
ISSN (online)	1814-9332
Scope	Palaeontology Stratigraphy Global and Planetary Change