How to format your references using the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. 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

Agrawal, A.A., 2001. Phenotypic plasticity in the interactions and evolution of species. Science 294, 321–326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tam, W.Y., Ma, C.H.E., 2014. Bipolar/rod-shaped microglia are proliferating microglia with distinct M1/M2 phenotypes. Sci. Rep. 4, 7279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wessling, M., Morcillo, L.G., Abdu, S., 2014. Nanometer-thick lateral polyelectrolyte micropatterns induce macrosopic electro-osmotic chaotic fluid instabilities. Sci. Rep. 4, 4294.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choe, J., Lin, S., Zhang, W., Liu, Q., Wang, L., Ramirez-Moya, J., Du, P., Kim, W., Tang, S., Sliz, P., Santisteban, P., George, R.E., Richards, W.G., Wong, K.-K., Locker, N., Slack, F.J., Gregory, R.I., 2018. mRNA circularization by METTL3-eIF3h enhances translation and promotes oncogenesis. Nature 561, 556–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kossiakoff, A., Sweet, W.N., 2005. Systems Engineering Principles and Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dawant, B.M., Christensen, G.E., Fitzpatrick, J.M., Rueckert, D. (Eds.), 2012. Biomedical Image Registration: 5th International Workshop, WBIR 2012, Nashville, TN, USA, July 7-8, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Aspray, W., Royer, G., Ocepek, M.G., 2014. American School Lunch Policy: A History, in: Royer, G., Ocepek, M.G. (Eds.), Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy, SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 61–84.

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 International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Can We Harness Bacteria To Help Clean Up Future Oil Spills? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1993. Developing and Using Questionnaires (No. PEMD-10.1.7). 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

Bouyer, J., 2017. Temporary Leadership in Athletics: The Experiences of Interim NCAA Directors of Athletics (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Bombs Injure 8 In Area Near Chechnya. New York Times A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Agrawal, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Agrawal, 2001; Tam and Ma, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tam and Ma, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Choe et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ind. Ergon.
ISSN (print)	0169-8141
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Human Factors and Ergonomics