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]

Marx V. Neurobiology: Brain mapping in high resolution. Nature 2013;503:147–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sharma A, Hartwig JF. Metal-catalysed azidation of tertiary C-H bonds suitable for late-stage functionalization. Nature 2015;517:600–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Murray BJ, Knopf DA, Bertram AK. The formation of cubic ice under conditions relevant to Earth’s atmosphere. Nature 2005;434:202–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rosebrock TR, Zeng L, Brady JJ, Abramovitch RB, Xiao F, Martin GB. A bacterial E3 ubiquitin ligase targets a host protein kinase to disrupt plant immunity. Nature 2007;448:370–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Goddard Blythe S. Assessing Neuromotor Readiness for Learning. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Tapper T. Oxford, the Collegiate University: Conflict, Consensus and Continuity. vol. 34. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Garima Yadav, Saurabh Maheshwari, Anjali Agarwal. Multi-domain Image Enhancement of Foggy Images Using Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization Method. In: Afzalpulkar N, Srivastava V, Singh G, Bhatnagar D, editors. Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Cognizance in Wireless Communication & Image Processing: ICRCWIP-2014, New Delhi: Springer India; 2016, p. 31–8.

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. Wasps Make Caterpillar Mummies. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wasps-make-caterpillar-mummies/ (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. Telecommunications: Improved Management Can Enhance FCC Decision Making for the Universal Service Fund Low-Income Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rodriguez F. A historical analysis of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the United States. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

Walsh MW. Even as Puerto Rico Was Buckling Under Debt, Investors Hungered for More. New York Times 2017:B5.

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