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]

J. Schroers, Condensed-matter physics: Glasses made from pure metals, Nature 512 (2014) 142–143.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Sawa, S.H. Snyder, Schizophrenia: diverse approaches to a complex disease, Science 296 (2002) 692–695.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.W. Rouse, S.K. Goffredi, R.C. Vrijenhoek, Osedax: bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males, Science 305 (2004) 668–671.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.C. Miguel, A. Vespignani, S. Zapperi, J. Weiss, J.R. Grasso, Intermittent dislocation flow in viscoplastic deformation, Nature 410 (2001) 667–671.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Abran, Software Project Estimation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J.L. Sussman, P. Spadon, eds., From Molecules to Medicines: Structure of Biological Macromolecules and Its Relevance in Combating New Diseases and Bioterrorism, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Brilly, Danube River Basin Coding, in: M. Brilly (Ed.), Hydrological Processes of the Danube River Basin: Perspectives from the Danubian Countries, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 125–141.

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]

R. Andrews, Republicans Set To Sell Off 3.3 Million Acres Of Public Land, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/republicans-set-sell-33-million-acres-public-land/ (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, Serious Shortcomings in FAA’s Training Program Must Be Remedied, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Hall, The use of art therapy to address psychosocial stress among men living with HIV: A grant proposal project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2011.

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.D. Shear, M. Landler, U.S. Withholding Its Endorsement on Climate Pact, New York Times (2017) A1.

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