How to format your references using the Indoor Air citation style

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

Kieffer J. Materials science. Not too hot to handle. Science. 2003;299:1998–1999.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mangalam M, Karve SM. ANIMAL COGNITION. Comment on “Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans’ mental number line.” Science. 2015;348:1438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sparrow B, Liu J, Wegner DM. Google effects on memory: cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips. Science. 2011;333:776–778.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pätzold M, Tellmann S, Häusler B, Hinson D, Schaa R, Tyler GL. A sporadic third layer in the ionosphere of Mars. Science. 2005;310:837–839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Haik B, Roy DM. Service Design for Six Sigma. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Vos PD, Garrity GM, Jones D, et al., eds. Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume Three The Firmicutes. Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Hraška V, Murín P. Interruption of the Aortic Arch. In: Murín P, ed. Surgical Management of Congenital Heart Disease II: Single Ventricle and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Aortic Arch Anomalies Septal Defects and Anomalies in Pulmonary Venous Return Anomalies of Thoracic Arteries and Veins A Video Manual. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015:119–137.

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 Indoor Air.

Blog post

Andrew E. Ten Things You Really Should Know About Ebola. IFLScience.

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. Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Years 1998 and 1997 Financial Statements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hardison A. Achieving Literacy Excellence through Identifying and Utilizing High Yield Strategies. 2017.

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

Vecsey G. A Goal Apart in ’08, Face to Face Now. New York Times. July 7, 2010:B14.

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	Indoor Air
Abbreviation	Indoor Air
ISSN (print)	0905-6947
ISSN (online)	1600-0668
Scope	Building and Construction Environmental Engineering Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health