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

Alberts, Bruce. 2011. Editor’s Note. Science (New York, N.Y.).

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, K., and E. I. Stiefel. 2001. Toward separation and purification of olefins using dithiolene complexes: an electrochemical approach. Science (New York, N.Y.) 291: 106–109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canestrelli, Daniele, Roberta Bisconti, and Giuseppe Nascetti. 2014. Extensive unidirectional introgression between two salamander lineages of ancient divergence and its evolutionary implications. Scientific reports 4: 6516.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lim, Kian-Huat, Brooke B. Ancrile, David F. Kashatus, and Christopher M. Counter. 2008. Tumour maintenance is mediated by eNOS. Nature 452: 646–649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kompare, Derek. 2010. CSI. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Tseng, Vincent S., Tu Bao Ho, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Arbee L. P. Chen, and Hung-Yu Kao, ed. 2014. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 18th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2014, Tainan, Taiwan, May 13-16, 2014. Proceedings, Part II. Vol. 8444. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Vidal, Samuel, Michel Petitot, François Boulier, François Lemaire, and Céline Kuttler. 2012. Models of Stochastic Gene Expression and Weyl Algebra. In Algebraic and Numeric Biology: 4th International Conference, ANB 2010, Hagenberg, Austria, July 31- August 2, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, ed. Katsuhisa Horimoto, Masahiko Nakatsui, and Nikolaj Popov, 76–97. 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 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Scientists Want To Map Your Moggy’s Microbiome. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 19.

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. 1981. Local Coordination Prevents Duplication of Services at Federally Sponsored Indian Education Projects. HRD-81-101. 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

Pence, Patricia L. 2010. Emotional intelligence, motivation, and retention among undergraduate students attending associate-degree nursing programs in Illinois. Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 2008. Investors in Russian Gas Venture Clash. New York Times, May 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alberts 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Wang and Stiefel 2001; Alberts 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Stiefel 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lim et al. 2008)

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