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]

Telenti A. HIV: The mixed blessing of interferon. Nature 2014;511:537–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Scharlemann JPW, Laurance WF. Environmental science. How green are biofuels? Science 2008;319:43–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bibby TS, Nield J, Barber J. Iron deficiency induces the formation of an antenna ring around trimeric photosystem I in cyanobacteria. Nature 2001;412:743–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Choi T, Lee S, Choi YJ, Kiryukhin V, Cheong S-W. Switchable ferroelectric diode and photovoltaic effect in BiFeO3. Science 2009;324:63–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Islam MR, Islam JS, Zatzman GM, Mughal MAH, Rahman MS. The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

König A, Dengel A, Hinkelmann K, Kise K, Howlett RJ, Jain LC, editors. Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV. vol. 6884. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Towson JEC, Eberl S. Radiation Protection and Dosimetry in PET and PET/CT. In: Valk PE, Delbeke D, Bailey DL, Townsend DW, Maisey MN, editors. Positron Emission Tomography: Clinical Practice, London: Springer; 2006, p. 41–62.

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]

Davis J. Tiny Octopus Displays Some Pretty Bizarre Hunting, Social, And Sexual Behavior. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-octopus-displays-weird-hunting-social-and-sexual/ (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. Computer Buys: Air Force Logistics Modernization Program Should Comply With Brooks Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Solari S. A unified anatomical theory and computational model of cognitive information processing in the mammalian brain and the introduction of DNA reco codes. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 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]

Hodara S. Conversation Between Works and Over Decades. New York Times 2014:CT9.

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