How to format your references using the Progress in Disaster Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Disaster 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	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

[1]

El-Awady N. Science journalism: The Arab boom. Nature 2009;459:1057.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pelham RJ, Chang F. Actin dynamics in the contractile ring during cytokinesis in fission yeast. Nature 2002;419:82–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hessa T, White SH, von Heijne G. Membrane insertion of a potassium-channel voltage sensor. Science 2005;307:1427.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lewis KW, Aharonson O, Grotzinger JP, Kirk RL, McEwen AS, Suer T-A. Quasi-periodic bedding in the sedimentary rock record of Mars. Science 2008;322:1532–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bender HF. Das Gefahrstoffbuch. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2002.

An edited book

[1]

Thomson R, Leburn C, Reid D, editors. Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Văduva S, Alistar VT, Thomas AR, Lupiţu CD, Neagoie DS. Management of Risks. In: Alistar VT, Thomas AR, Lupiţu CD, Neagoie DS, editors. Moral Leadership in Business: Towards a Business Culture of Integrity, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 77–92.

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 Progress in Disaster Science.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. All-Nighters May Give You False Memories. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/all-nighters-may-give-you-false-memories/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Tax Systems Modernization: Comments on IRS’ Portion of President’s Request for Fiscal Year 1993 Supplemental Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tam R. Adaptation of AspectJ for C sharp. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

[1]

Wagner J. Mets Cap Busy Day of Moves by Acquiring a Closer. New York Times 2017:D2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Progress in Disaster Science
ISSN (print)	2590-0617
Scope