How to format your references using the Analytic Methods in Accident Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 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 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

Mackinnon, R., 2004. Structural biology. Voltage sensor meets lipid membrane. Science 306, 1304–1305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maslin, M., Scott, J., 2011. Carbon trading needs a multi-level approach. Nature 475, 445–447.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weber, W., Riesen, S., Siegmann, H.C., 2001. Magnetization precession by hot spin injection. Science 291, 1015–1018.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu, Y., Yoon, S.-O., Poulogiannis, G., Yang, Q., Ma, X.M., Villén, J., Kubica, N., Hoffman, G.R., Cantley, L.C., Gygi, S.P., Blenis, J., 2011. Phosphoproteomic analysis identifies Grb10 as an mTORC1 substrate that negatively regulates insulin signaling. Science 332, 1322–1326.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lundberg, U., Cooper, C.L., 2010. The Science of Occupational Health. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

McKenney, M., 2016. Map Framework: A Formal Model of Maps as a Fundamental Data Type in Information Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Do, H., McDonagh, D.L., 2016. Pediatric Neuroanesthesia, in: Agrawal, A., Britz, G. (Eds.), Pediatric Vascular Neurosurgery: Principles and Practice of Neurovascular Disorders (Part 1). Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–56.

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 Analytic Methods in Accident Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. New Horizons’ Close Encounter with Pluto will Reveal its Icy Secrets [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-close-encounter-pluto-will-reveal-its-icy-secrets/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. The Air Force Continued To Develop the Advanced Logistics System, a Program It Was Directed To Cancel (No. LCD-78-108). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goetz, S.B., 2014. Perceptions toward a restraint-free practice: A case study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Wagner, J., 2016. Nationals Take Lead, Then Hand It to Bullpen. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Mackinnon, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Mackinnon, 2004; Maslin and Scott, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Maslin and Scott, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Analytic Methods in Accident Research
Abbreviation	Anal. Methods Accid. Res.
ISSN (print)	2213-6657
Scope	Safety Research Transportation