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

Koenig, R. 2000. “IRANIAN SCIENCE: Iran’s Scientists Cautiously Reach Out to the World.” Science, 290 (5496): 1484–1487.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nuth, J. A., 3rd, and N. M. Johnson. 2012. “Astronomy. Complex protostellar chemistry.” Science, 336 (6080): 424–425.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeng, B., Y. Gao, and F. J. Bartoli. 2013. “Ultrathin nanostructured metals for highly transmissive plasmonic subtractive color filters.” Sci. Rep., 3: 2840.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rubenstein, D. R., C. P. Chamberlain, R. T. Holmes, M. P. Ayres, J. R. Waldbauer, G. R. Graves, and N. C. Tuross. 2002. “Linking breeding and wintering ranges of a migratory songbird using stable isotopes.” Science, 295 (5557): 1062–1065.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsch, R. 2017. Convergence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fujii, S. (Ed.). 2015. Beyond Global Capitalism. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Post, W. 2014. “Car braking-system components.” Brakes, Brake Control and Driver Assistance Systems: Function, Regulation and Components, K. Reif, ed., 40–55. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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. 2014. “Amazing New Find Brings Us Closer To Cloning A Woolly Mammoth.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-edge-closer-being-able-clone-woolly-mammoth/.

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. 2001. Air Traffic Control: Role of FAA’s Modernization Program in Reducing Delays and Congestion. 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

Arab, A. A. 2012. “Finite Element Modeling of Pretensioned Concrete Girders: A Methodological Approach with Applications in Large Strands and End Zone Cracking.” 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

Risen, J. 2016. “Trump Can Target Journalists, Thanks to Obama.” New York Times, December 30, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig 2000; Nuth and Johnson 2012).

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

Two authors: (Nuth and Johnson 2012)
Three or more authors: (Rubenstein et al. 2002)

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

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