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]

Auerbach DJ. Surface science. Hitting the surface--softly. Science 2001;294:2488–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chu S, Majumdar A. Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future. Nature 2012;488:294–303.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bowman GD, O’Donnell M, Kuriyan J. Structural analysis of a eukaryotic sliding DNA clamp-clamp loader complex. Nature 2004;429:724–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Larmagnac A, Eggenberger S, Janossy H, Vörös J. Stretchable electronics based on Ag-PDMS composites. Sci Rep 2014;4:7254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hoschette JA. The Engineer’s Career Guide. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Ngonga Ngomo A-C, Křemen P, editors. Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web: 7th International Conference, KESW 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, September 21-23, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 649. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lund-Durlacher D. Corporate Social Responsibility and Tourism. In: Moscardo G, Benckendorff P, editors. Education for Sustainability in Tourism: A Handbook of Processes, Resources, and Strategies, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 59–73.

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]

Andrew E. The Science Behind The Most Gruesome Deaths In Game of Thrones. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/science-behind-most-gruesome-deaths-game-thrones/ (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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Key Marine Corps System Acquisition Needs to Be Better Justified, Defined, and Managed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cooper J. Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow in a Porous Media Using Python. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

MARY WILLIAMS WALSH; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF. U.S. to Take Over Orchestra’s Pensions. New York Times 2011:C3.

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