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

Pandolfi, J.M., 2015. Ecology: Deep and complex ways to survive bleaching. Nature 518 7537 , 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grubb, M.S., Burrone, J., 2010. Activity-dependent relocation of the axon initial segment fine-tunes neuronal excitability. Nature 465 7301 , 1070–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thibodeaux, C.J., Melançon, C.E., Liu, H.-W., 2007. Unusual sugar biosynthesis and natural product glycodiversification. Nature 446 7139 , 1008–1016.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tang, Z., Chandrasekara, R., Sean, Y.Y., Cheng, C., Wildfeuer, C., Ling, A., 2014. Near-space flight of a correlated photon system. Sci. Rep. 4, 6366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb, A.H., Reade, J.P.H., 2010. Herbicides and Plant Physiology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Burge, M.J., Bowyer, K.W. (Eds.), 2013. Handbook of Iris Recognition, Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Resch, K., 2005. Cytokines, in: Nijkamp, F.P., Parnham, M.J. (Eds.), Principles of Immunopharmacology. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 45–61.

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

Luntz, S., 2017. The Amazon Rainforest Is Dominated By Domesticated Trees [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-amazon-rainforest-is-dominated-by-domesticated-trees/ (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, 2005. Vocational Rehabilitation: Better Measures and Monitoring Could Improve the Performance of the VR Program (No. GAO-05-865). 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

Lefebvre, K., 2017. Racial Prejudice, Individualism, and Political Identity: Understanding the Forty-Year Trend of Anti-Welfare Spending Preferences (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kelly, C., 2007. Instant Fortunes, and Sudden Headaches. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pandolfi, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Grubb and Burrone, 2010; Pandolfi, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Grubb and Burrone, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tang 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