How to format your references using the American Journal of Industrial Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Zewail AH. The fog that was not. Nature. 2001;412(6844):279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bayer R, Colgrove J. Public health vs. civil liberties. Science. 2002;297(5588):1811.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falkenburger BH, Barstow KL, Mintz IM. Dendrodendritic inhibition through reversal of dopamine transport. Science. 2001;293(5539):2465-2470.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Minot ED, Yaish Y, Sazonova V, McEuen PL. Determination of electron orbital magnetic moments in carbon nanotubes. Nature. 2004;428(6982):536-539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saccone C, Pesole G. Handbook of Comparative Genomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Bürgisser P. Condition: The Geometry of Numerical Algorithms. Vol 349. (Cucker F, ed.). Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Purcell JE, Clarkin E, Doyle TK. Foods of Velella velella (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in algal rafts and its distribution in Irish seas. In: Purcell J, Mianzan H, Frost JR, eds. Jellyfish Blooms IV: Interactions with Humans and Fisheries. Springer Netherlands; 2012:47-55.

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 American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Who’s To Blame When Artificial Intelligence Systems Go Wrong? IFLScience. August 17, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/who-s-blame-when-artificial-intelligence-systems-go-wrong/

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

Government Accountability Office. Technology Assessment: Neutron Detectors: Alternatives to Using Helium-3. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cai S. 3D Numerical Modeling of Dry/Wet Contact Mechanics for Rough, Multilayered Elastic-Plastic Solid Surfaces and Effects of Hydrophilicity/Hydrophobicity During Separation with Applications. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2008.

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

Shpigel B. Soccer Gets a Second Look. New York Times. July 20, 2017:B8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	American Journal of Industrial Medicine
ISSN (print)	0271-3586
ISSN (online)	1097-0274
Scope