How to format your references using the Climate Research citation style

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

Wang Q (2013) Nuclear safety lies in greater transparency. Nature 494:403.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fearon ER, Cadigan KM (2005) Cell biology. Wnt signaling glows with RNAi. Science 308:801–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Good SP, Noone D, Bowen G (2015) WATER RESOURCES. Hydrologic connectivity constrains partitioning of global terrestrial water fluxes. Science 349:175–177.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van der Hilst RD, de Hoop MV, Wang P, Shim S-H, Ma P, Tenorio L (2007) Seismostratigraphy and thermal structure of Earth’s core-mantle boundary region. Science 315:1813–1817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abulencia JP, Theodore L (2015) Open-Ended Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mucherino A (2009) Data Mining in Agriculture. Papajorgji PJ, Pardalos PM (eds) Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Cavailhès J, Brossard T, Hilal M, Joly D, Tourneux F-P, Tritz C, Wavresky P (2008) Pricing the Homebuyer’s Countryside View. In: Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets: Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation. Baranzini A, Ramirez J, Schaerer C, Thalmann P (eds) Springer, New York, NY, p 83–99

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 Research.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Jupiter-Sized Sunspot Largest for 24 Years. https://www.iflscience.com/space/jupiter-sized-sunspot-largest-24-years/ (accessed 30 October 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 (2009) Motor Carrier Safety: Commercial Vehicle Registration Program Has Kept Unsafe Carriers from Operating, but Effectiveness Is Difficult to Measure. 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

Demenkoff JH (2014) Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA

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

Leland J (2017) Faith and Family, in Transition. New York Times:MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wang 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Fearon & Cadigan 2005, Wang 2013).

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

Two authors: (Fearon & Cadigan 2005)
Three or more authors: (van der Hilst et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climate Research
Abbreviation	Clim. Res.
ISSN (print)	0936-577X
ISSN (online)	1616-1572
Scope	Atmospheric Science General Environmental Science Environmental Chemistry