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]

Newman AL. What the “right to be forgotten” means for privacy in a digital age. Science 2015;347:507–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gribble PL, Scott SH. Overlap of internal models in motor cortex for mechanical loads during reaching. Nature 2002;417:938–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Postma E, Griffith SC, Brooks R. Evolutionary genetics: evolution of mate choice in the wild. Nature 2006;444:E16; discussion E16-7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mohamed N-V, Plouffe V, Rémillard-Labrosse G, Planel E, Leclerc N. Starvation and inhibition of lysosomal function increased tau secretion by primary cortical neurons. Sci Rep 2014;4:5715.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Calloway J. Becoming a Category of One. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Lovrek I, Howlett RJ, Jain LC, editors. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 12th International Conference, KES 2008, Zagreb, Croatia, September 3-5, 2008, Proceedings, Part I. vol. 5177. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Viggiani G. Mechanisms of localized deformation in geomaterials: an experimental insight using full-field measurement techniques. In: Kolymbas D, Viggiani G, editors. Mechanics of Natural Solids, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 105–25.

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]

Andrews R. Global Warming Was A Fifth Worse In The Last 150 Years Than Historical Records Show. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-warming-was-a-fifth-worse-in-the-last-150-years-than-historical-records-show/ (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. Review of Pension and Fringe Benefits for Contractors’ Employees at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kuls M. Single item versus multiple items: An examination of validity and the impact of mood in measuring constructs. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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. A Super Mission: Crashing the Closet. New York Times 2017:AR17.

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