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

Mervis J. RESEARCH POLICY: Report Tracks Federal Funding in Each State. Science. 2000;288(5474):2115b.

A journal article with 2 authors

García-Sastre A, Biron CA. Type 1 interferons and the virus-host relationship: a lesson in détente. Science. 2006;312(5775):879-882.

A journal article with 3 authors

Renata H, Zhou Q, Baran PS. Strategic redox relay enables a scalable synthesis of ouabagenin, a bioactive cardenolide. Science. 2013;339(6115):59-63.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gordon L, Abu-Farsakh H, Janotti A, Van de Walle CG. Hydrogen bonds in Al2O3 as dissipative two-level systems in superconducting qubits. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7590.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Escarpa A, González MC, López MÁ. Agricultural and Food Electroanalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Brun L, Vento M, eds. Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition: 5th IAPR International Workshop, GbRPR 2005, Poitiers, France, April 11-13, 2005. Proceedings. Vol 3434. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Ugurlu T, Zeitler A, Kheyrollahi A. Sample Application: Application Structure and Domain Model. In: Zeitler A, Kheyrollahi A, eds. Pro ASP.NET Web API: HTTP Web Services in ASP.NET. Apress; 2013:95-139.

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. New Photographs Show Surface Of Venus. IFLScience. Published March 11, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-use-ground-based-radar-peer-under-venus-thick-cloak/

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Status of Planning and Technical Foundation. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Matthews LK. The Impact of Trait Displaced Aggression and Social Support on Cardiovascular Reactivity. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2016.

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

Marx L. That Gravy Boat Has Sailed. New York Times. July 26, 2015:ST10.

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

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