How to format your references using the Fire Science Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fire Science Reviews. 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

Brody H (2015) Prostate cancer. Nature 528:S117

A journal article with 2 authors

Adesnik H, Scanziani M (2010) Lateral competition for cortical space by layer-specific horizontal circuits. Nature 464:1155–1160

A journal article with 3 authors

Royo-Torres R, Cobos A, Alcalá L (2006) A giant European dinosaur and a new sauropod clade. Science 314:1925–1927

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Smith LC, MacDonald GM, Velichko AA, et al (2004) Siberian peatlands a net carbon sink and global methane source since the early Holocene. Science 303:353–356

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knopf FC (2011) Modeling, Analysis and Optimization of Process and Energy Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Andina D, Pham DT (eds) (2007) Computational Intelligence: for Engineering and Manufacturing. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Cotter VT, Teixeira J (2016) Early Stage Dementia: Maximizing Self-Direction and Health. In: Boltz M, Galvin JE (eds) Dementia Care: An Evidence-Based Approach. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–70

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 Fire Science Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Incredible Photographs Show The “Dark Side” Of The Moon From More Than A Million Miles Away. In: IFLScience. 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 (2016) Air Traffic Control: Experts’ and Stakeholders’ Views on Key Issues to Consider in a Potential Restructuring [Reissued on December 9, 2016]. 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

Hwang YJ (2006) Three Essays on Economics and Risk Perception. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Schmidt MS, Haberman M (2017) Letter By Trump On Comey Ouster Informs Inquiry. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Adesnik and Scanziani 2010; Brody 2015).

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

Two authors: (Adesnik and Scanziani 2010)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fire Science Reviews
Abbreviation	Fire Sci. Rev.
ISSN (online)	2193-0414
Scope