How to format your references using the Fire Technology citation style

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

Kump LR (2008) The rise of atmospheric oxygen. Nature 451:277–278

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilhite AW, Fong EA (2012) Scientific publications. Coercive citation in academic publishing. Science 335:542–543

A journal article with 3 authors

Mastrobuono-Battisti A, Perets HB, Raymond SN (2015) A primordial origin for the compositional similarity between the Earth and the Moon. Nature 520:212–215

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zürch M, Rothhardt J, Hädrich S, et al (2014) Real-time and sub-wavelength ultrafast coherent diffraction imaging in the extreme ultraviolet. Sci Rep 4:7356

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartlett K (2016) The Experience of History. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Duncan SFM (2012) Reoperative Hand Surgery. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Mocci F, Laaksonen A, Wang Y-L, et al (2014) CompChem and NMR Probing Ionic Liquids. In: Caminiti R, Gontrani L (eds) The Structure of Ionic Liquids. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 97–126

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 Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Farmers in China Discover Giant Armored Dinosaur Fossils. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/farmers-china-discover-giant-armored-dinosaur-fossils/. 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 (2008) Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges Facing the Agency in Fiscal Year 2009 and Beyond. 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

Curti CL (2017) Talking About Science Interests: The Importance of Feedback Appraisals When Students Talk About Their Interests in STEM. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly C (2011) Living With the Sweet Smell of Sap. New York Times C25

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 Technology
Abbreviation	Fire Technol.
ISSN (print)	0015-2684
ISSN (online)	1572-8099
Scope	Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality General Materials Science