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

McLean, A. R. 2013. “Epidemiology. Coming to an airport near you.” Science, 342 (6164): 1330–1331.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis, C. S., and D. J. McGillicuddy Jr. 2006. “Transatlantic abundance of the N2-fixing colonial cyanobacterium Trichodesmium.” Science, 312 (5779): 1517–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

Regenauer-Lieb, K., D. A. Yuen, and J. Branlund. 2001. “The initiation of subduction: criticality by addition of water?” Science, 294 (5542): 578–580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bai, F., Y. V. Morimoto, S. D. J. Yoshimura, N. Hara, N. Kami-Ike, K. Namba, and T. Minamino. 2014. “Assembly dynamics and the roles of FliI ATPase of the bacterial flagellar export apparatus.” Sci. Rep., 4: 6528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Imrie, R., and E. Street. 2011. Architectural Design and Regulation. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Kowalewski, M. M., P. A. Garber, L. Cortés-Ortiz, B. Urbani, and D. Youlatos (Eds.). 2015. Howler Monkeys: Adaptive Radiation, Systematics, and Morphology. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Thiel, A., and B. König. 2008. “An institutional analysis of land use modelling in the European Commission.” Sustainability Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes, K. Helming, M. Pérez-Soba, and P. Tabbush, eds., 55–75. 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 Natural Hazards Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. “Researchers Find Fossil Fragments Of World’s Oldest Flowering Plant.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-find-fossil-fragments-world-s-oldest-flowering-plant/.

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. 2008. Traffic Safety: NHTSA’s Improved Oversight Could Identify Opportunities to Strengthen Management and Safety in Some States. 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

George, K. G. 2017. “Revisiting ‘The Blue Line Blues’: Transit-Oriented Development in Inner-City Areas of Los Angeles County, 2000-2016.” Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wilson, M. 2017. “In Chelsea Bombing Trial, a Lesson on How a Cellphone Becomes a Trigger.” New York Times, October 10, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McLean 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Davis and McGillicuddy 2006; McLean 2013).

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

Two authors: (Davis and McGillicuddy 2006)
Three or more authors: (Bai et al. 2014)

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