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

Wark, D., 2014. Particle physics: The hunt for Majorana neutrinos hots up. Nature 510 7504 , 224–225.

A journal article with 2 authors

Synolakis, C., Foteinis, S., 2009. Choking on carbon emissions from Greek academic paperwork. Nature 461 7261 , 167.

A journal article with 3 authors

Good, M.C., Zalatan, J.G., Lim, W.A., 2011. Scaffold proteins: hubs for controlling the flow of cellular information. Science 332 6030 , 680–686.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, J., Yan, S., Sluyter, R., Li, W., Alici, G., Nguyen, N.-T., 2014. Inertial particle separation by differential equilibrium positions in a symmetrical serpentine micro-channel. Sci. Rep. 4, 4527.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Neave, E.H., 2009. Modern Financial Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Orey, M., Jones, S.A., Branch, R.M. (Eds.), 2012. Educational Media and Technology Yearbook: Volume 36, 2011, Educational Media and Technology Yearbook. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Sande, S., Sadun, E., 2010. iPhone Messaging and Social Networking, in: Sadun, E., Andres, C., Welsh, T., Anglin, S., Beckner, M., Buckingham, E., Cornell, G., Gennick, J., Hassell, J., Lowman, M., Moodie, M., Parkes, D., Pepper, J., Pohlmann, F., Pundick, D., Renow-Clarke, B., Shakeshaft, D., Wade, M., Moritz, K., Wimpsett, K. (Eds.), Taking Your IPhone 4 to the Max. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 79–95.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. AI Researchers Should Not Retreat From Battlefield Robots, They Should Engage Them Head-On [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ai-researchers-should-not-retreat-battlefield-robots-they-should-engage-them-head/ (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, 1988. Bridge Improvements: States Exercise Discretion in Selecting Projects Using Federal-Aid Funds (No. RCED-89-8). 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

Guarin, Y., 2017. A Postpartum Support Group for Women Experiencing Postpartum Depression: A Grant Proposal (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

Stewart, J.B., 2017. For Some C.E.O.s, a Trump Invitation Is Risky Business. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wark, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Synolakis and Foteinis, 2009; Wark, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Synolakis and Foteinis, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

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