How to format your references using the Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Occupational and Environmental 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	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

1. Tsay Y-F. Plant science: How to switch affinity. Nature. 2014;507:44–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ahn S, Lee SJ. Nanoparticle role on the repeatability of stimuli-responsive nanocomposites. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6624.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yu DYW, Hoster HE, Batabyal SK. Bulk antimony sulfide with excellent cycle stability as next-generation anode for lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Herbert SP, Huisken J, Kim TN, Feldman ME, Houseman BT, Wang RA, et al. Arterial-venous segregation by selective cell sprouting: an alternative mode of blood vessel formation. Science. 2009;326:294–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Khanna VK. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor IGBT Theory and Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Schultheiss H-P, Noutsias M, editors. Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy (DCMi): Pathogenesis and Therapy. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cleophas TJ, Zwinderman AH. Quality-of-Life (QOL) Assessments with Odds Ratios. In: Zwinderman AH, editor. Machine Learning in Medicine: Part Two. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 39–44.

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 Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Mothers Predominately Cradling Infants On Their Left May Have A Deep Evolutionary Origin [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/mothers-predominately-cradling-infants-on-their-left-may-have-a-deep-evolutionary-origin/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Status of the Air Force’s Missile X Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Mar. Report No.: PSAD-78-35.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Madigan JP. Regulation of localization and function of the Rho family small GTPase, Rnd3 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2008.

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

1. Yablonsky L. Eye Spy. New York Times. 2007 Aug 26;6228.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Abbreviation	Ann. Occup. Environ. Med.
ISSN (online)	2052-4374
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