How to format your references using the International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health. 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

Pasachoff JM. Solar eclipses as an astrophysical laboratory. Nature 2009 Jun 11;459(7248):789–95.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vajda V, McLoughlin S. Fungal proliferation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Science 2004 Mar 5;303(5663):1489.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee KJ, Dietrich P, Jessell TM. Genetic ablation reveals that the roof plate is essential for dorsal interneuron specification. Nature 2000 Feb 17;403(6771):734–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Smalley R Jr, Ellis MA, Paul J, Van Arsdale RB. Space geodetic evidence for rapid strain rates in the New Madrid seismic zone of central USA. Nature 2005 Jun 23;435(7045):1088–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chow S-C, Liu J-P. Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concepts and Methodologies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Cheng L, Liu Q, Ronzhin A, editors. Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2016: 13th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2016, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 6-8, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Wong JC, Lee GHT, Zhang Y, Yim WS, Fornia RP, Xu DY, et al. Comparing the Macroeconomic Responses of US and Japan through Time Series Segmentation. In: Fred A, Dietz JLG, Liu K, Filipe J, editors. Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Third International Joint Conference, IC3K 2011, Paris, France, October 26-29, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 79–93.

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 Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health.

Blog post

Andrew E. Cannibalism And Detachable Penises: The Unusual Sex Lives Of The Animal Kingdom [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/guest-blog-nature-sex-2/

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. Aircraft Maintenance: Potential Shortage in National Aircraft Repair Capacity. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Oct. Report No.: RCED-91-14.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tubbs MA. The use of hand-constructed graphs in Microcomputer-Based Laboratories for kinematics instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Pilon M. Skipping School and Work? They Just Felt Blue. New York Times 2012 Feb 8;B13.

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	International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
Abbreviation	Int. J. Occup. Med. Environ. Health
ISSN (print)	1232-1087
ISSN (online)	1896-494X
Scope	General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health