How to format your references using the Accident Analysis and Prevention citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Accident Analysis and Prevention. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Verma, I.M., 2012. Renato Dulbecco (1914-2012). Nature 483 7390 , 408.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mangalam, M., Karve, S.M., 2015. ANIMAL COGNITION. Comment on “Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans’ mental number line.” Science 348 6242 , 1438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sommer, M.O.A., Dantas, G., Church, G.M., 2009. Functional characterization of the antibiotic resistance reservoir in the human microflora. Science 325 5944 , 1128–1131.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Endres, M., Cheneau, M., Fukuhara, T., Weitenberg, C., Schauss, P., Gross, C., Mazza, L., Bañuls, M.C., Pollet, L., Bloch, I., Kuhr, S., 2011. Observation of correlated particle-hole pairs and string order in low-dimensional Mott insulators. Science 334 6053 , 200–203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacquenet, C., Bourdon, G., Boucadair, M., 2008. Service Automation and Dynamic Provisioning Techniques in IP/MPLS Environments. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Guex, J., 2016. Discrete Biochronological Time Scales, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sarter, M., Bruno, J.P., Parikh, V., Martinez, V., Kozak, R., Richards, J.B., 2006. Forebrain dopaminergic-cholinergic interactions, attentional effort, psychostimulant addiction and schizophrenia, in: Levin, E.D. (Ed.), Neurotransmitter Interactions and Cognitive Function, Experientia Supplementum. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 65–86.

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 Accident Analysis and Prevention.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Misuse Of Prescription Opioids Has More Than Doubled In the US In the Past Decade [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/misuse-of-prescription-opioids-has-more-than-doubled-in-the-us-in-the-past-decade/ (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. Tax Systems Modernization: Comments on IRS’ Fiscal Year 1994 Budget Request (No. T-IMTEC-93-6). 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

Ramos, E., 2013. Emergency department utilization among Medicare enrollees: A project report (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

Shear, M.D., 2017. Ask Him Anything, Unless It’s About Trump. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Verma, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Mangalam and Karve, 2015; Verma, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Mangalam and Karve, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Endres et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Accident Analysis and Prevention
Abbreviation	Accid. Anal. Prev.
ISSN (print)	0001-4575
ISSN (online)	1879-2057
Scope	Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Human Factors and Ergonomics Law