How to format your references using the Analytic Methods in Accident Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Analytic Methods in Accident Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Flannery, T., 2001. Geology. North American devastation or global cataclysm? Science 294, 1668–1669.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaplinsky, N.J., Barton, M.K., 2004. Plant biology. Plant acupuncture: sticking PINs in the right places. Science 306, 822–823.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pregibon, D.C., Toner, M., Doyle, P.S., 2007. Multifunctional encoded particles for high-throughput biomolecule analysis. Science 315, 1393–1396.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mao, C., LaBean, T.H., Relf, J.H., Seeman, N.C., 2000. Logical computation using algorithmic self-assembly of DNA triple-crossover molecules. Nature 407, 493–496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sheldrake, P., 2014. The Spiritual City. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Rutherford, A., Capdevila, R., Undurti, V., Palmary, I. (Eds.), 2011. Handbook of International Feminisms: Perspectives on Psychology, Women, Culture, and Rights, 1st ed, International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Nets-Zehngut, R., 2016. The Israeli Collective Memory of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict: Its Characteristics and Relation to the Conflict, in: Sharvit, K., Halperin, E. (Eds.), A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal, Vol II, Peace Psychology Book Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 49–60.

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 Analytic Methods in Accident Research.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2014. A Man Took This Photograph Of Birds, And Turned Their Positions Into Musical Notes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/turning-birds-music/ (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, 1989. Tactical Airlift: Issues Concerning Air Force Plans for Pacific Distribution System (No. NSIAD-89-81). 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

Johnson, D.M., 2015. Prison nursery programs: Measuring society’s perceptions and support (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

McNAMARA, J., 2017. Falling Through Time. New York Times BR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Flannery, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Flannery, 2001; Kaplinsky and Barton, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Kaplinsky and Barton, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mao et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Analytic Methods in Accident Research
Abbreviation	Anal. Methods Accid. Res.
ISSN (print)	2213-6657
Scope	Safety Research Transportation