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

Marx D (2004) Chemistry. Throwing tetrahedral dice. Science 303:634–636

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhou H, Dick HJB (2013) Thin crust as evidence for depleted mantle supporting the Marion Rise. Nature 494:195–200

A journal article with 3 authors

Russell SH, Hancock MP, McCullough J (2007) The pipeline. Benefits of undergraduate research experiences. Science 316:548–549

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dennis PB, Jaeschke A, Saitoh M, et al (2001) Mammalian TOR: a homeostatic ATP sensor. Science 294:1102–1105

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson N, Hall G, Fawcett W (2011) How to Survive in Anaesthesia. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Sun J, Liu J, Yang Y, Fan S (2012) China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2012 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fiedor J, Vojnar T (2013) ANaConDA: A Framework for Analysing Multi-threaded C/C++ Programs on the Binary Level. In: Qadeer S, Tasiran S (eds) Runtime Verification: Third International Conference, RV 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, September 25-28, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–41

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

Carpineti C (2017) New Footage Reveals Deadly Chimpanzee Battles. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-footage-reveals-deadly-chimpanzee-battles/. 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 (2013) Gas Pipeline Safety: Guidance and More Information Needed before Using Risk-Based Reassessment Intervals. 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

Gillespie L (2014) Trust in Leadership: Investigation of Andragogical Learning and Implications for Student Placement Outcomes. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Tommasini A, Oestreich JR, da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM C, et al (2016) For Classical Fans, Boxed Sets and Beyond. New York Times C13

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