How to format your references using the Natural Hazards Review citation style

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

Gregg, J. M. 2012. “Applied physics. Stressing ferroelectrics.” Science, 336 (6077): 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marler, J. R., and L. B. Goldstein. 2003. “Medicine. Stroke--tPA and the clinic.” Science, 301 (5640): 1677.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bastos-Aristizabal, S., G. Kozlov, and K. Gehring. 2014. “Structure of the substrate-binding b’ domain of the Protein Disulfide Isomerase-Like protein of the Testis.” Sci. Rep., 4: 4464.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Muruve, D. A., V. Pétrilli, A. K. Zaiss, L. R. White, S. A. Clark, P. J. Ross, R. J. Parks, and J. Tschopp. 2008. “The inflammasome recognizes cytosolic microbial and host DNA and triggers an innate immune response.” Nature, 452 (7183): 103–107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toptygin, I. N. 2015. Electromagnetic Phenomena in Matter. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Savacı, F. A. (Ed.). 2006. Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks: 14th Turkish Symposium, TAINN 2005, Izmir, Turkey, June 16-17, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Campbell, M., and K. E. Zegwaard. 2015. “Developing Critical Moral Agency Through Workplace Engagement.” Practice-based Learning in Higher Education: Jostling Cultures, Professional and Practice-based Learning, M. Kennedy, S. Billett, S. Gherardi, and L. Grealish, eds., 47–64. 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 Natural Hazards Review.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2016. “Hyperloop One Performs First Test Of Groundbreaking Technology.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/hyperloop-one-performs-first-test-groundbreaking-technology/.

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. 2014. Technology Transfer: Federal Laboratory Consortium Should Increase Communication with Potential Customers to Improve Initiatives. 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

Seevaratnam, N. 2019. “Forecasting Optimality in Resource Utilization for Cloud Computing Systems to Maximize Quality of Service.” Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Weber, B. 2016. “Henry Worsley, a British Adventurer Trying to Cross Antarctica, Dies at 55.” New York Times, January 26, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gregg 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Gregg 2012; Marler and Goldstein 2003).

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

Two authors: (Marler and Goldstein 2003)
Three or more authors: (Muruve et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Natural Hazards Review
Abbreviation	Nat. Hazards Rev.
ISSN (print)	1527-6988
ISSN (online)	1527-6996
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering General Environmental Science General Social Sciences