How to format your references using the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 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

Abbott, A. 2000. Art imitating high-energy physics. Nature 404: 219.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez, Fernando, and Brian Taylor. 2002. Mantle wedge control on back-arc crustal accretion. Nature 416: 417–420.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baughman, Ray H., Anvar A. Zakhidov, and Walt A. de Heer. 2002. Carbon nanotubes--the route toward applications. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297: 787–792.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hu, J., Li Ls, W. Yang, L. Manna, Wang Lw, and A. P. Alivisatos. 2001. Linearly polarized emission from colloidal semiconductor quantum rods. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292: 2060–2063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thiselton, Anthony C. 2010. 1 & 2 Thessalonians: Through the Centuries. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Leondes, Cornelius T., ed. 2005. Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems: Business and Technology in the New Millennium. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Mitchell, Scott A., and Roy A. Meals. 2012. Surgical Options for Failed Thumb Basal Joint Arthroplasty. In Reoperative Hand Surgery, ed. Scott F. M. Duncan, 67–77. New York, NY: Springer.

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 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Watch A Cheetah Robot Jump Over Hurdles Without Slowing Down. IFLScience. IFLScience. June 1.

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. 1973. Alleged Violations of the Kentucky State Plan for Vocational Education and Federal Regulations on Vocational Education by the Kentucky Department of Education. B-164031(1). 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

Lakin, Brenda K. 2009. Reading First program effects on students with disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, St. Charles, MO: Lindenwood 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

Murphy, Mary J. O. 2016. Friday File: A Look at the Golden Age for Oscar-Nominated Newspaper Movies. New York Times, March 4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2000; Martinez and Taylor 2002).

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

Two authors: (Martinez and Taylor 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Abbreviation	Int. J. Disaster Risk Sci.
ISSN (print)	2095-0055
ISSN (online)	2192-6395
Scope	Global and Planetary Change Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development Safety Research