How to format your references using the Natural Hazards citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Natural Hazards. 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

Melino G (2010) Journal club. A cancer biologist weighs up p53, metabolism and cancer. Nature 466:905

A journal article with 2 authors

Parker AR, Lawrence CR (2001) Water capture by a desert beetle. Nature 414:33–34

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirchner JW, Feng X, Neal C (2000) Fractal stream chemistry and its implications for contaminant transport in catchments. Nature 403:524–527

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shim J, Bae S-H, Kong W, et al (2018) Controlled crack propagation for atomic precision handling of wafer-scale two-dimensional materials. Science 362:665–670

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golding P (2005) Next Generation Wireless Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bellemans J, Ries MD, Victor JMK (eds) (2005) Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Guide to Get Better Performance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Xiang L (2012) Simulation System of Examination Score Analysis Based on an Improved Apriori Algorithm. In: Zeng D (ed) Advances in Computer Science and Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 19–25

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 Natural Hazards.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Longer Migration Routes Led to Drab Female Warblers. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1991) Computer Security: Hackers Penetrate DOD Computer Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sontag M (2006) Emotion and the Labeling Process. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Leland J (2016) The Last Days for the Circus. New York Times MB8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Melino 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Parker and Lawrence 2001; Melino 2010).

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

Two authors: (Parker and Lawrence 2001)
Three or more authors: (Shim et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Natural Hazards
Abbreviation	Nat. Hazards (Dordr.)
ISSN (print)	0921-030X
ISSN (online)	1573-0840
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Atmospheric Science Water Science and Technology