How to format your references using the Case Studies in Fire Safety citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Studies in Fire Safety. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

[1]

H.H. Ehrsson, The experimental induction of out-of-body experiences, Science 317 (2007) 1048.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.N. Houk, P.H.-Y. Cheong, Computational prediction of small-molecule catalysts, Nature 455 (2008) 309–313.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.W. Mitchell, J.S. Lundeen, A.M. Steinberg, Super-resolving phase measurements with a multiphoton entangled state, Nature 429 (2004) 161–164.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Mahajan, G. Machabeli, Z. Osmanov, N. Chkheidze, Ultra high energy electrons powered by pulsar rotation, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Sab, A. Lebée, Homogenization of Heterogeneous Thin and Thick Plates, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

M. Bertolotto, ed., Color Doppler US of the Penis, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Tamás, L. Tibor, Horizontal Homogeneity and Vertical Heterogeneity of Building Up in Budapest, in: L. Tibor (Ed.), Settlement Morphology of Budapest, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 67–71.

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 Case Studies in Fire Safety.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Ancient Americans Hunted Bizarre Elephant Relative, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-americans-hunted-bizarre-elephant-relative/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Surface Effect Ships, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B.F. Munchel, Exploratory Study of Counseling Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Distance Clinical Supervision, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2015.

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

[1]

M.J.O. Murphy, They Grow Up, But They Remain A Lifetime Pursuit, New York Times (2013) AR12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Case Studies in Fire Safety
Abbreviation	Case Stud. Fire Saf.
ISSN (print)	2214-398X
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