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

Matzke NJ (2016) The evolution of antievolution policies after Kitzmiller versus Dover. Science 351:28–30

A journal article with 2 authors

Sugita M, Shiba Y (2005) Genetic tracing shows segregation of taste neuronal circuitries for bitter and sweet. Science 309:781–785

A journal article with 3 authors

Sánchez I, Mahlke C, Yuan J (2003) Pivotal role of oligomerization in expanded polyglutamine neurodegenerative disorders. Nature 421:373–379

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jenkyns HC, Forster A, Schouten S, Sinninghe Damsté JS (2004) High temperatures in the Late Cretaceous Arctic Ocean. Nature 432:888–892

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Medhurst D (2008) A Brief and Practical Guide to EU Law. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Cámara J, Lemos R de, Ghezzi C, Lopes A (eds) (2013) Assurances for Self-Adaptive Systems: Principles, Models, and Techniques. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Dinotta F, Ramoni S, Donofrio P, Cusini M (2013) Sexually Transmitted Diseases. In: Cusini M, Donofrio P, Dinotta F (eds) Atlas of Male Genital Disorders: A Useful Aid for Clinical Diagnosis. Springer, Milano, pp 37–49

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

Andrews R (2017) This 110-Million-Year-Old Armored Dinosaur Was Turned To Stone By A Geological Medusa. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Federal Research: Assessment of the Financial Audit for SEMATECH’s Activities in 1991. 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

Pulice SW (2013) The colonized child: Love, community, and wholeness as necessary elements of education. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Gladstone R, Specia M (2017) At the U.N., Pressure Builds on Myanmar Over a ‘Human Rights Nightmare.’ New York Times A4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Matzke 2016).
This sentence cites two references (Sugita and Shiba 2005; Matzke 2016).

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

Two authors: (Sugita and Shiba 2005)
Three or more authors: (Jenkyns et al. 2004)

About the journal

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