How to format your references using the Occupational Medicine citation style

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

Baker M. Animal models: inside the minds of mice and men. Nature 2011 Jul 6;475(7354):123–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cruz G, Lowe G. Neural coding of binary mixtures in a structurally related odorant pair. Sci. Rep. 2013 Feb 5;3:1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carporzen L, Gilder SA, Hart RJ. Palaeomagnetism of the Vredefort meteorite crater and implications for craters on Mars. Nature 2005 May 12;435(7039):198–201.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu W, Li X, Cao J, Zhang H, Zhang H. Membranes with well-defined ions transport channels fabricated via solvent-responsive layer-by-layer assembly method for vanadium flow battery. Sci. Rep. 2014 Feb 6;4:4016.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang KQT. Wireless Communications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Ortuño F, Rojas I, editors. Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering: 4th International Conference, IWBBIO 2016, Granada, Spain, April 20-22, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Holte RC, Drummond C. Cost-Sensitive Classifier Evaluation Using Cost Curves. In: Washio T, Suzuki E, Ting KM, Inokuchi A, editors. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 12th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2008 Osaka, Japan, May 20-23, 2008 Proceedings Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 26–9.

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 Occupational Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Yes, Africa Will Feed Itself Within The Next 15 Years [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/yes-africa-will-feed-itself-within-next-15-years/

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. Geographic Information Systems: Information on Federal Use and Coordination. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Sep. Report No.: IMTEC-91-72FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Weisblatt BH. The numinous on Russian soil: A depth psychological interpretation of religious experience in “The Brothers Karamazov” [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2010.

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

Kishkovsky S. MOSCOW: THE BALLERINA SUES. New York Times 2003 Oct 27;E2.

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	Occupational Medicine
Abbreviation	Occup. Med. (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	0962-7480
ISSN (online)	1471-8405
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health