How to format your references using the Fire Safety Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fire Safety Journal. 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]

P. Pockley, Clean-up strategy at Australian nuclear site called into question, Nature 404 (2000) 797.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.M. Lee, C.S. Craik, Trapping moving targets with small molecules, Science 324 (2009) 213–215.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Chakraborty, P. Yanchulova, M.H. Thiemens, Mass-independent oxygen isotopic partitioning during gas-phase SiO2 formation, Science 342 (2013) 463–466.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Coulson, E.A. Catchpole, S.D. Albon, B.J. Morgan, J.M. Pemberton, T.H. Clutton-Brock, M.J. Crawley, B.T. Grenfell, Age, sex, density, winter weather, and population crashes in Soay sheep, Science 292 (2001) 1528–1531.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y.Y. Chong, Investment Risk Management, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

D.M.P. Mingos, ed., The Chemical Bond II: 100 Years Old and Getting Stronger, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.V. Anderson, D.P. Horvath, W.S. Chao, M.E. Foley, Bud Dormancy in Perennial Plants: A Mechanism for Survival, in: E. Lubzens, J. Cerda, M. Clark (Eds.), Dormancy and Resistance in Harsh Environments, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 69–90.

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 Safety Journal.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Sex And Other Myths About Weight Loss, IFLScience (2016).

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, Aviation Security: Registered Traveler Program Policy and Implementation Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.A. Gates, Best Practices and Strategies for Financial Literacy in Faith-Based Organizations, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

J. Barron, A Cathedral-Like Home For a Church’s Peacocks, New York Times (2017) A19.

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	Fire Safety Journal
Abbreviation	Fire Saf. J.
ISSN (print)	0379-7112
Scope	General Chemistry Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality General Materials Science General Physics and Astronomy