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

Knight, J. 2001. “Senators Call for Biodefence Boost.” Nature 413 (6855): 441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wyithe, J. Stuart B., and Abraham Loeb. 2006. “Suppression of Dwarf Galaxy Formation by Cosmic Reionization.” Nature 441 (7091): 322–324.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, Xing, Fenglu Han, and Qi Zhao. 2014. “Homologies and Homeotic Transformation of the Theropod ‘semilunate’ Carpal.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6042.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Rosmi, Mohamad Saufi, Mohd Zamri Yusop, Golap Kalita, Yazid Yaakob, Chisato Takahashi, and Masaki Tanemura. 2014. “Visualizing Copper Assisted Graphene Growth in Nanoscale.” Scientific Reports 4 (December): 7563.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xiong, Kaiqi. 2014. Resource Optimization and Security for Cloud Services. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kokinov, Boicho, Daniel C. Richardson, Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, and Laure Vieu, eds. 2007. Modeling and Using Context: 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2007, Roskilde, Denmark, August 20-24, 2007. Proceedings. Vol. 4635. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Apeldoorn, Daan. 2015. “A Spatio-Temporal Multiagent Simulation Framework for Reusing Agents in Different Kinds of Scenarios.” In Multiagent System Technologies: 13th German Conference, MATES 2015, Cottbus, Germany, September 28 - 30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, edited by Jörg P. Müller, Wolf Ketter, Gal Kaminka, Gerd Wagner, and Nils Bulling, 79–97. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. “Scientists Find Traces Of Ancient Star From The Beginning Of The Universe.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-find-traces-ancient-star-beginning-universe/.

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. 2003. Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools: Expenditures in Selected Schools Are Comparable to Similar Public Schools, But Data Are Insufficient to Judge Adequacy of Funding and Formulas. GAO-03-955. 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

Johnson, Nicolas J. 2017. “Queered.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Homans, Charles. 2012. “A Soap Opera on the High Seas.” New York Times, December 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Knight 2001; Wyithe and Loeb 2006).

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

Two authors: (Wyithe and Loeb 2006)
Three authors: (Xu, Han, and Zhao 2014)
4 or more authors: (Rosmi 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