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

Pessoa L. Neuroscience. Seeing the world in the same way. Science. 2004;303(5664):1617-1618.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marmottant P, Hilgenfeldt S. Controlled vesicle deformation and lysis by single oscillating bubbles. Nature. 2003;423(6936):153-156.

A journal article with 3 authors

Silk JB, Alberts SC, Altmann J. Social bonds of female baboons enhance infant survival. Science. 2003;302(5648):1231-1234.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hume AJ, Finkel JS, Kamil JP, Coen DM, Culbertson MR, Kalejta RF. Phosphorylation of retinoblastoma protein by viral protein with cyclin-dependent kinase function. Science. 2008;320(5877):797-799.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corns TN. A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Rosenblatt J, Podack ER, Barber GN, Ochoa A, eds. Advances in Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Majtner T, Yildirim-Yayilgan S, Hardeberg JY. Efficient Melanoma Detection Using Texture-Based RSurf Features. In: Campilho A, Karray F, eds. Image Analysis and Recognition: 13th International Conference, ICIAR 2016, in Memory of Mohamed Kamel, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2016:30-37.

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

Hamilton K. Microbes: Our Tiny, Crucial Allies. IFLScience.

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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Leadership and Systems Needed to Effect Financial Management Improvements. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carter KE. The Use of Boron-Doped Diamond Film Electrodes for the Oxidative Degradation of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate and Trichloroethylene. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2009.

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

Duerden J. Amid Political Strain, Game’s Tension Rises. New York Times. September 1, 2016:B17.

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