How to format your references using the Journal of Occupational Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Occupational Science. 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

Foster, K. R. (2005). Biomedicine. Hamiltonian medicine: why the social lives of pathogens matter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5726), 1269–1270.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boetius, A., & Joye, S. (2009). Ecology. Thriving in salt. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5934), 1523–1525.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greiner, M., Regal, C. A., & Jin, D. S. (2003). Emergence of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas. Nature, 426(6966), 537–540.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Corma, A., Díaz-Cabañas, M. J., Martínez-Triguero, J., Rey, F., & Rius, J. (2002). A large-cavity zeolite with wide pore windows and potential as an oil refining catalyst. Nature, 418(6897), 514–517.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sinclair, E. (2013). Volatility Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bonazza, R., & Ranjan, D. (Eds.). (2015). 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves 1: Volume 1. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

de Lara, J., & Guerra, E. (2012). Reusable Graph Transformation Templates. In A. Schürr, D. Varró, & G. Varró (Eds.), Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance: 4th International Symposium, AGTIVE 2011, Budapest, Hungary, October 4-7, 2011, Revised Selected and Invited Papers (pp. 35–50). Springer.

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 Journal of Occupational Science.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, January 25). The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Reveals The People’s Choice Award. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-reveals-the-peoples-choice-award/

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. (2004). Computer-Based Patient Records: VA and DOD Efforts to Exchange Health Data Could Benefit from Improved Planning and Project Management (GAO-04-687). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shendge, P. N. (2017). Improvement in Estimation of Carrier Frequency Offset in Wireless Networks [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

de la MERCED, M. J., & Steel, E. (2017, May 1). 21st Century Fox and Blackstone May Be Devising a Joint Offer for Tribune Media. New York Times, B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Foster, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Boetius & Joye, 2009; Foster, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Boetius & Joye, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Corma et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Occupational Science
Abbreviation	J. Occup. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1442-7591
ISSN (online)	2158-1576
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science