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

van der Leij MJ (2011) Sociology. Experimenting with buddies. Science 334:1220–1221

A journal article with 2 authors

Guydosh NR, Block SM (2009) Direct observation of the binding state of the kinesin head to the microtubule. Nature 461:125–128

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang Z, Szolnoki A, Perc M (2013) Interdependent network reciprocity in evolutionary games. Sci Rep 3:1183

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Christophorou MA, Ringshausen I, Finch AJ, et al (2006) The pathological response to DNA damage does not contribute to p53-mediated tumour suppression. Nature 443:214–217

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackwood N (2014) Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lin L (2012) Statistical Tools for Measuring Agreement, 1st ed. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Yang J, Dolinger M, Ritaccio G, et al (2015) Leucine as a Stimulant of Insulin. In: Rajendram R, Preedy VR, Patel VB (eds) Branched Chain Amino Acids in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 1. Springer, New York, NY, pp 49–62

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 (2015) Not Everything Gives You Cancer, But Eating Too Much Processed Meat Certainly Can. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/not-everything-gives-you-cancer-eating-too-much-processed-meat-certainly-can/. 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 (2015) Information Technology Reform: Billions of Dollars in Savings Have Been Realized, but Agencies Need to Complete Reinvestment Plans. 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

Ayvaz MD (2017) Generating Creativity in Teams: An Exploratory Case Study. 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

Yee V, Schweber N (2015) Fleeting Stability for a Woman Charged With Killing Her Son. New York Times A1

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