How to format your references using the Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards. 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

Sternberg, Paul W. 2004. “Developmental Biology. A Pattern of Precision.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5658): 637–638.

A journal article with 2 authors

LaRue, Candace C., and Pamela A. Padilla. 2012. “IBI Series Winner. A Mutant Search--Caenorhabditis Elegans and Gene Discovery.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6106): 487–488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao, Shangbin, Rui Li, and Muhong Chen. 2013. “Detecting Sedimentary Cycles Using Autocorrelation of Grain Size.” Scientific Reports 3 (2013): 1653.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rodrigues, Ana S. L., Robert M. Ewers, Luke Parry, Carlos Souza Jr, Adalberto Veríssimo, and Andrew Balmford. 2009. “Boom-and-Bust Development Patterns across the Amazon Deforestation Frontier.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 324 (5933): 1435–1437.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hwang, Ruey-Bing Raybeam. 2012. Periodic Structures. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd.

An edited book

Xu, Weixia, Liquan Xiao, Jinwen Li, and Chengyi Zhang, eds. 2016. Computer Engineering and Technology: 19th CCF Conference, NCCET 2015, Hefei, China, October 18-20, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. 1st ed. 2016. Vol. 592. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Breu, Jakob, and Michael Menth. 2014. “An Improved Relevance Estimation Function for Cooperative Awareness Messages in VANETs.” In Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 6th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2014, Offenburg, Germany, May 6-7, 2014. Proceedings, edited by Axel Sikora, Marion Berbineau, Alexey Vinel, Magnus Jonsson, Alain Pirovano, and Marina Aguado, 43–56. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, David Hutchison, Takeo Kanade, Josef Kittler, Jon M. Kleinberg, Alfred Kobsa, Friedemann Mattern, John C. Mitchell, et al. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Jimmy Kimmel Asks Anti-GMO People What A ‘GMO’ Is.” IFLScience, IFLScience, October 11. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/jimmy-kimmel-asks-anti-gmo-people-what-gmo/.

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. 2014. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Slower Than Expected Progress in Software Testing May Limit Initial Warfighting Capabilities. GAO-14-468T. Washington, DC: 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

Esmaili, Gholamreza. 2006. “Application of Advanced Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Sources and Hybrid Generating Systems.” 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

Tackett, Michael. 2017. “Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Victims Could Find Political Clout in Florida.” New York Times, October 6, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sternberg 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Sternberg 2004; LaRue and Padilla 2012).

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

Two authors: (LaRue and Padilla 2012)
Three authors: (Xiao, Li, and Chen 2013)
4 or more authors: (Rodrigues et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards
ISSN (print)	1749-9518
ISSN (online)	1749-9526
Scope	Geology Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Civil and Structural Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Building and Construction