How to format your references using the Natural Hazards Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Natural Hazards Review. 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

Osborne, J. 2010. “Arguing to learn in science: the role of collaborative, critical discourse.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 328 (5977): 463–466.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morris, S. C., and J.-B. Caron. 2007. “Halwaxiids and the early evolution of the lophotrochozoans.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 315 (5816): 1255–1258.

A journal article with 3 authors

Avitabile, C., L. D. D’Andrea, and A. Romanelli. 2014. “Circular Dichroism studies on the interactions of antimicrobial peptides with bacterial cells.” Scientific reports, 4: 4293.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Louzada, V. H. P., N. A. M. Araújo, J. S. Andrade Jr, and H. J. Herrmann. 2013. “Breathing synchronization in interconnected networks.” Scientific reports, 3: 3289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moe, T. M., and J. E. Chubb. 2009. Liberating Learning. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

Tsoukas, C., ed. 2006. Lymphocyte Signal Transduction. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Kainen, P. C., V. Kůrková, and M. Sanguineti. 2013. “Approximating Multivariable Functions by Feedforward Neural Nets.” Handbook on Neural Information Processing, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, edited by M. Bianchini, M. Maggini, and L. C. Jain, 143–181. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Natural Hazards Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Scientist Proposes That Black Holes are Harmless Holograms.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Estimated Costs, Planned Uses of Emergency Funding, and Future Implications. 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

Brown, C. E. 2013. “Sources for the reevaluation of George Frederick Root’s career: The autobiography & a secular cantata.” Doctoral dissertation, 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

Rothenberg, B. 2017. “Young Stars Climb Rankings, Jolting Russia’s Dormant Men’s Game to Life.” New York Times, January 17, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Osborne 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Morris and Caron 2007; Osborne 2010).

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

Two authors: (Morris and Caron 2007)
Three or more authors: (Louzada et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Natural Hazards Review
Abbreviation	Nat. Hazards Rev.
ISSN (print)	1527-6988
ISSN (online)	1527-6996
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering General Environmental Science General Social Sciences