How to format your references using the Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics 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	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

Rakic, Pasko. 2004. “Neuroscience. Genetic Control of Cortical Convolutions.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 303 (5666): 1983–1984.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishide, Hiroyuki, and Kenichi Oyaizu. 2008. “Materials Science. Toward Flexible Batteries.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319 (5864): 737–738.

A journal article with 3 authors

Izawa, Yusuke, Doris Pun, and Shannon S. Stahl. 2011. “Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Dehydrogenation of Substituted Cyclohexanones to Phenols.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6039): 209–213.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Auluck, Pavan K., H. Y. Edwin Chan, John Q. Trojanowski, Virginia M. Y. Lee, and Nancy M. Bonini. 2002. “Chaperone Suppression of Alpha-Synuclein Toxicity in a Drosophila Model for Parkinson’s Disease.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 295 (5556): 865–868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strohfeldt, Katja A. 2015. Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Yalovsky, Shaul, František Baluška, and Alan Jones, eds. 2010. Integrated G Proteins Signaling in Plants. Signaling and Communication in Plants. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Franzon, Paul. 2010. “Use of AC Coupled Interconnect in Contactless Packaging.” In Coupled Data Communication Techniques for High-Performance and Low-Power Computing, edited by Ron Ho and Robert Drost, 127–153. Integrated Circuits and Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “Physicist Claims to Have Proven Mathematically That Black Holes Do Not Exist.” IFLScience, IFLScience, September 24.

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. 1970. Use of Consultants by NASA. B-168033. Washington, DC: 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

Sommer, Adam. 2017. “How Experiences Influence and Inform School Principals’ Actions to Further Develop Teachers’ Instructional Practice.” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University.

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

Hirsch, George A. 2011. “The Humanity of the Long-Distance Runner.” New York Times, April 24, 2011.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rakic 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Rakic 2004; Nishide and Oyaizu 2008).

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

Two authors: (Nishide and Oyaizu 2008)
Three authors: (Izawa, Pun, and Stahl 2011)
4 or more authors: (Auluck et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science
Abbreviation	Theor. Issues Ergon.
ISSN (print)	1463-922X
ISSN (online)	1464-536X
Scope	Human Factors and Ergonomics