How to format your references using the American Journal of Industrial Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Industrial 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 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

Brook EJ. Atmosphere. Leads and lags at the end of the last ice age. Science. 2013;339(6123):1042-1043.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bentley WE, Payne GF. Materials science. Nature’s other self-assemblers. Science. 2013;341(6142):136-137.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lassus P, Opitz-Araya X, Lazebnik Y. Requirement for caspase-2 in stress-induced apoptosis before mitochondrial permeabilization. Science. 2002;297(5585):1352-1354.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Melo HPM, Moreira AA, Batista É, Makse HA, Andrade JS. Statistical signs of social influence on suicides. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DeRosa TF. Advances in Polymer Chemistry and Methods Reported in Recent US Patents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Amara SG. Reviews of Physiology Biochemistry and Pharmacology. Vol 157. (Bamberg E, Gudermann T, Hebert SC, et al., eds.). Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Villacis B, Carrillo D. The Socioeconomic Paradox of Galapagos. In: Walsh SJ, Mena CF, eds. Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands: Frameworks & Perspectives. Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands. Springer; 2013:69-85.

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 American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Men Walk On Ice As Clear As Glass. IFLScience. December 12, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/men-walk-ice-clear-glass/

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. Basis Used by the Office of Education for Classifying Contracts as Either Competitive or Noncompetitive. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wilson LA. An Exploratory Study of the Impact of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support on Bullying. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Wagner J. With a Final Shot, the Mets Are Denied as the Braves Snatch a Sweep. New York Times. September 22, 2016:B13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	American Journal of Industrial Medicine
ISSN (print)	0271-3586
ISSN (online)	1097-0274
Scope