How to format your references using the Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards. 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

Baltensperger, Urs. 2010. “Atmospheric Science. Aerosols in Clearer Focus.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5998): 1474–1475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zitvogel, Laurence, and Guido Kroemer. 2015. “CANCER. A P53-Regulated Immune Checkpoint Relevant to Cancer.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 349 (6247): 476–477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spiegelhalter, David, Mike Pearson, and Ian Short. 2011. “Visualizing Uncertainty about the Future.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6048): 1393–1400.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mishra, Kartikeya, Chandrashekhar Murade, Bruno Carreel, Ivo Roghair, Jung Min Oh, Gor Manukyan, Dirk van den Ende, and Frieder Mugele. 2014. “Optofluidic Lens with Tunable Focal Length and Asphericity.” Scientific Reports 4 (September): 6378.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Garber, Richard. 2014. BIM Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Korelc, Jože. 2016. Automation of Finite Element Methods. Edited by Peter Wriggers. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Heendaliya, Lasanthi, Dan Lin, and Ali Hurson. 2012. “Predictive Line Queries for Traffic Prediction.” In Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems VI: Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications, edited by Abdelkader Hameurlain, Josef Küng, Roland Wagner, Stephen W. Liddle, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, and Xiaofang Zhou, 106–133. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2016. “Earthquake Detectors Pick Up Epic ‘Weather Bomb’ On Other Side Of The World.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earthquake-detectors-pick-up-epic-weather-bomb-on-other-side-of-the-world/.

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. 1989. Tactical Airlift: Issues Concerning Air Force Plans for Pacific Distribution System. NSIAD-89-81. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Henry, Amanda Georganna. 2010. “Plant Foods and the Dietary Ecology of Neandertals and Modern Humans.” Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: 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

Stellin, Susan. 2014. “Full Picture of Airlines’ Punctuality Is Elusive.” New York Times, February 3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baltensperger 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Baltensperger 2010; Zitvogel and Kroemer 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zitvogel and Kroemer 2015)
Three authors: (Spiegelhalter, Pearson, and Short 2011)
4 or more authors: (Mishra et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards
ISSN (print)	1749-9518
ISSN (online)	1749-9526
Scope	Geology Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology Civil and Structural Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Building and Construction