How to format your references using the Fire Science Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fire Science Reviews. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Weinberg DH (2005) Astronomy. Mapping the large-scale structure of the universe. Science 309:564–565

A journal article with 2 authors

Dangl JL, Jones JD (2001) Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection. Nature 411:826–833

A journal article with 3 authors

Daw R, Finkelstein J, Helmer M (2012) Chemistry and energy. Nature 488:293

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dash SP, Sharma S, Patel RS, et al (2009) Electrical creation of spin polarization in silicon at room temperature. Nature 462:491–494

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kossiakoff A, Sweet WN (2005) Systems Engineering Principles and Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rovenski V, Walczak P (eds) (2014) Geometry and its Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Dimian M, Andrei P (2014) Noise Spectral Density of Hysteretic Systems. In: Andrei P (ed) Noise-Driven Phenomena in Hysteretic Systems. Springer, New York, NY, pp 167–200

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 Science Reviews.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Climate Change Could Stir Up Competition For Plants Living In The Swiss Alps. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/climate-change-could-stir-competition-plants-living-swiss-alps/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2011) IT Dashboard: Accuracy Has Improved, and Additional Efforts Are Under Way to Better Inform Decision Making. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Joseph S (2009) A comprehensive evaluation of a school system’s grow your own principal preparation program. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Crow K (2001) A 26-Year Dispute Over a Tower, With No End in Sight. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weinberg 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Dangl and Jones 2001; Weinberg 2005).

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

Two authors: (Dangl and Jones 2001)
Three or more authors: (Dash et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fire Science Reviews
Abbreviation	Fire Sci. Rev.
ISSN (online)	2193-0414
Scope