How to format your references using the Structural Safety citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Structural Safety. 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

[1]

Dlott DD. Chemistry. Ultrafast chemical exchange seen with 2D vibrational echoes. Science 2005;309:1333–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Das RM, Storey KG. Apical abscission alters cell polarity and dismantles the primary cilium during neurogenesis. Science 2014;343:200–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gravina B, Mellars P, Ramsey CB. Radiocarbon dating of interstratified Neanderthal and early modern human occupations at the Chatelperronian type-site. Nature 2005;438:51–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ji Q, Luo Z-X, Yuan C-X, Wible JR, Zhang J-P, Georgi JA. The earliest known eutherian mammal. Nature 2002;416:816–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Riches J. Galatians Through the Centuries. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Sheng QZ, Wang G, Jensen CS, Xu G, editors. Web Technologies and Applications: 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2012, Kunming, China, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings. vol. 7235. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Feil B, Abonyi J. Geodesic Distance Based Fuzzy Clustering. In: Saad A, Dahal K, Sarfraz M, Roy R, editors. Soft Computing in Industrial Applications: Recent Trends, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 50–9.

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 Structural Safety.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. This Is How Much Data The Internet Gets Through In One Minute. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-is-how-much-data-the-internet-gets-through-in-one-minute/ (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. FAA Technical Center: Mission and Role in National Airspace System Plan Implementation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Fisher MD. The impact adult supervision, role models, and civic engagement has on the health status of adolescents. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Gustines GG. Funny, but Not Funny Enough for The New Yorker. New York Times 2017:C17.

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	Structural Safety
Abbreviation	Struct. Saf.
ISSN (print)	0167-4730
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Building and Construction