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. Bourne, ECOLOGY: Louisiana’s Vanishing Wetlands: Going, Going ., Science 289 (2000) 1860–1863.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Weitzer, J. Martinez, The human RNA kinase hClp1 is active on 3’ transfer RNA exons and short interfering RNAs, Nature 447 (2007) 222–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.L. Jones, R.C. Brewster, R. Phillips, Promoter architecture dictates cell-to-cell variability in gene expression, Science 346 (2014) 1533–1536.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Wang, S. Xiao, Y. Li, H. Zhong, X. Li, F. Peng, Methane formation and consumption processes in Xiangxi Bay of the Three Gorges Reservoir, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4449.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Bachmann, A. Steinle, V. Hahn, Bauen mit Betonfertigteilen im Hochbau, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

R. Lowen, A. Verschoren, eds., Foundations of Generic Optimization: Volume 2: Applications of Fuzzy Control, Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Boden, C. Lanari, A. Torres, T. Weikert, In-Flight IPCT Wing Deformation Measurements on a Small Aircraft, in: F. Boden, N. Lawson, H.W. Jentink, J. Kompenhans (Eds.), Advanced In-Flight Measurement Techniques, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 57–72.

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]

E. Andrew, Cadaver Study Suggests Fist Fighting Could Have Played A Role In Hand Evolution, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cadaver-study-suggests-fist-fighting-could-have-played-role-hand-evolution/ (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, Fiscal Year 2014 Agreed-Upon Procedures: Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.R. Yasa, Visual Basic Simulation of H2S Removal from Natural Gas at Downhole in an Extraction Well, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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]

S. Kishkovsky, Magazine Is New in Moscow, but Looks Familiar to New York, New York Times (2004) A4.

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