How to format your references using the Weather, Climate, and Society citation style

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

Hirose, K., 2010: Geochemistry. Deep mantle properties. Science, 327, 151–152.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Brien, S. J., and W. J. Murphy, 2003: Genomics. A dog’s breakfast? Science, 301, 1854–1855.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kelly, B. P., A. Whiteley, and D. Tallmon, 2010: The Arctic melting pot. Nature, 468, 891.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Bernhardt, T. G., I. N. Wang, D. K. Struck, and R. Young, 2001: A protein antibiotic in the phage Qbeta virion: diversity in lysis targets. Science, 292, 2326–2329.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crane, L., 2015: Knowledge and Discourse Matters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hasler, P., V. Mooney, and R. Reis, eds., 2009: VLSI-SoC: Advanced Topics on Systems on a Chip: A Selection of Extended Versions of the Best Papers of the Fourteenth International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of System on Chip (VLSI-SoC2007), October 15-17, 2007, Atlanta, USA. Springer US X, 290 p. 17 illusp.

A chapter in an edited book

İlsever, M., and C. Ünsalan, 2012: Structure-Based Change Detection Methods. Two-Dimensional Change Detection Methods: Remote Sensing Applications, C. Ünsalan, Ed., SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, Springer, 41–51.

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 Weather, Climate, and Society.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017: People With Creative Personalities Really Do See The World Differently. IFLScience. Accessed 30 October 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/people-with-creative-personalities-really-do-see-the-world-differently/.

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, 2016: DOT Discretionary Grants: Problems with Hurricane Sandy Transit Grant Selection Process Highlight the Need for Additional Accountability. U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pettengill, J. B., 2010: Elucidating the macro- and micro-evolutionary relationships of the federally listed endangered species Agalinis acuta (Orobanchaceae). University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Saslow, L., 2007: Nassau Comptroller Warns County on Finances. New York Times, March 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hirose 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hirose 2010; O’Brien and Murphy 2003).

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

Two authors: (O’Brien and Murphy 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bernhardt et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Weather, Climate, and Society
Abbreviation	Weather Clim. Soc.
ISSN (print)	1948-8327
ISSN (online)	1948-8335
Scope	Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change Social Sciences (miscellaneous)