How to format your references using the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. 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	Download the output style file
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

Carlson, David. 2011. A lesson in sharing. Nature 469: 293.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teotónio, H., and M. R. Rose. 2000. Variation in the reversibility of evolution. Nature 408: 463–466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carbone, Fabrizio, Oh-Hoon Kwon, and Ahmed H. Zewail. 2009. Dynamics of chemical bonding mapped by energy-resolved 4D electron microscopy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 181–184.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zeng, Jia, Aida Mohammadreza, Weimin Gao, Saeed Merza, Dean Smith, Laimonas Kelbauskas, and Deirdre R. Meldrum. 2014. A minimally invasive method for retrieving single adherent cells of different types from cultures. Scientific reports 4: 5424.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laheurte, Jean-Marc, Christian Ripoll, Dominique Paret, and Christophe Loussert. 2014. UHF RFID Technologies for Identification and Traceability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chechurin, Leonid, ed. 2016. Research and Practice on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ): Linking Creativity, Engineering and Innovation. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Abtew, Wossenu, and Assefa Melesse. 2013. Vapor Pressure Calculation Methods. In Evaporation and Evapotranspiration: Measurements and Estimations, ed. Assefa Melesse, 53–62. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.

Blog post

Andrews, Robin. 2017. Interactive Map Reveals The Countries Least Resistant To Superbug Infections. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 4.

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. 2002. Mass Transit: Federal Action Could Help Transit Agencies Address Security Challenges. GAO-03-263. 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

Barrie, Daniel Bennett. 2010. On the interaction of wind energy with climate and weather. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Pilon, Mary. 2012. The One And Only: The Footprints On a Path to Gold. New York Times, April 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carlson 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Teotónio and Rose 2000; Carlson 2011).

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

Two authors: (Teotónio and Rose 2000)
Three or more authors: (Zeng et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Abbreviation	Int. J. Disaster Risk Sci.
ISSN (print)	2095-0055
ISSN (online)	2192-6395
Scope	Global and Planetary Change Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Geography, Planning and Development Safety Research