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

Lander, Eric S. 2011. Initial impact of the sequencing of the human genome. Nature 470: 187–197.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmitt, J. H., and R. Wichmann. 2001. Ground-based observation of emission lines from the corona of a red-dwarf star. Nature 412: 508–510.

A journal article with 3 authors

Voog, Justin, Cecilia D’Alterio, and D. Leanne Jones. 2008. Multipotent somatic stem cells contribute to the stem cell niche in the Drosophila testis. Nature 454: 1132–1136.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tharakaraman, Kannan, Rahul Raman, Nathan W. Stebbins, Karthik Viswanathan, Viswanathan Sasisekharan, and Ram Sasisekharan. 2013. Antigenically intact hemagglutinin in circulating avian and swine influenza viruses and potential for H3N2 pandemic. Scientific reports 3: 1822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rim, Chun T., and Chris Mi. 2017. Wireless Power Transfer for Electric Vehicles and Mobile Devices. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Catania, Barbara, Tania Cerquitelli, Silvia Chiusano, Giovanna Guerrini, Mirko Kämpf, Alfons Kemper, Boris Novikov, Themis Palpanas, Jaroslav Pokorný, and Athena Vakali, ed. 2014. New Trends in Databases and Information Systems: 17th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems. Vol. 241. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Carrer, Alessandro, Massimo Giacca, and Mauro Giacca. 2013. Molecular Parameters for Prognostic and Predictive Assessment in Colorectal Cancer. In Rectal Cancer: Strategy and Surgical Techniques, ed. Nicolò de Manzini, 41–62. Updates in Surgery. Milano: 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. 2016. Why Can’t You Tickle Yourself? IFLScience. IFLScience. May 28.

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. 1993. Trucking Transportation: Information on Handling of Undercharge Claims. RCED-93-208FS. 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

Safarian Bahri, Parham. 2017. Erosion Rate Prediction Model for Levee-Floodwall Overtopping Applications in Fine-Grained Soils. Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Davey, Monica. 2013. Michigan Naming Fiscal Manager To Help Detroit. New York Times, March 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lander 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Schmitt and Wichmann 2001; Lander 2011).

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

Two authors: (Schmitt and Wichmann 2001)
Three or more authors: (Tharakaraman et al. 2013)

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