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

Grosjean M. Mid-Holocene climate in the south-central Andes: humid or dry? Science. 2001;292(5526):2391.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cai HN, Shen P. Effects of cis arrangement of chromatin insulators on enhancer-blocking activity. Science. 2001;291(5503):493-495.

A journal article with 3 authors

Langmore NE, Hunt S, Kilner RM. Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young. Nature. 2003;422(6928):157-160.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Roukny T, Bersini H, Pirotte H, Caldarelli G, Battiston S. Default cascades in complex networks: topology and systemic risk. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2759.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirsh SJ. Media and Youth. Wiley-Blackwell; 2009.

An edited book

Agrawal D, Candan KS, Li WS, eds. New Frontiers in Information and Software as Services: Service and Application Design Challenges in the Cloud. Vol 74. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Huysmans P, Verelst J. Towards an Engineering-Based Research Approach for Enterprise Architecture: Lessons Learned from Normalized Systems Theory. In: Franch X, Soffer P, eds. Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops: CAiSE 2013 International Workshops, Valencia, Spain, June 17-21, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer; 2013:58-72.

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

Luntz S. Mysterious Lake Appears In The Middle Of The Desert Without Explanation. IFLScience. August 3, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mysterious-lake-appears-middle-desert-without-explanation/

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. Federal Communications Commission: Narrowband Personal Communications Services and Competitive Bidding. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Martinez AM. Moving in Foster Care: Voices of Adults Who Experienced Multiple Foster Care Placements in Childhood. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Feeney K. Spanish Cuisine (From Scratch). New York Times. January 7, 2007:NJ14.

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