How to format your references using the Climatic Change citation style

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

Kaplan K (2009) Unmasking the impostor. Nature 459:468–469

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhalerao S, Clandinin TR (2012) Cell biology. Vitamin K2 takes charge. Science 336:1241–1242

A journal article with 3 authors

Taylor PD, Day T, Wild G (2007) Evolution of cooperation in a finite homogeneous graph. Nature 447:469–472

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schwartz T, Bartal G, Fishman S, Segev M (2007) Transport and Anderson localization in disordered two-dimensional photonic lattices. Nature 446:52–55

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strachman D, Bookbinder R (2009) Fund of Funds Investing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dincer I (2016) Clean Rail Transportation Options, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Gu P (2014) EFL Teacher Learning in the Chinese Sociocultural Context. In: Coniam D (ed) English Language Education and Assessment: Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland. Springer, Singapore, pp 69–85

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 Climatic Change.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) China’s First Space Station Could Be Out Of Control And Heading For Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/chinas-first-space-station-could-be-out-of-control-and-heading-for-earth/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2008) Space Acquisitions: DOD’s Goals for Resolving Space Based Infrared System Software Problems Are Ambitious. 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

Lingley-Papadopoulos CA (2008) Image analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography images of the urinary bladder for the recognition of bladder cancer. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Callahan M (2017) Suspense. New York Times BR26

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaplan 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kaplan 2009; Bhalerao and Clandinin 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bhalerao and Clandinin 2012)
Three or more authors: (Schwartz et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Climatic Change
Abbreviation	Clim. Change
ISSN (print)	0165-0009
ISSN (online)	1573-1480
Scope	Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change