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. Pourquie O. Developmental Biology. Managing patterns and proportions over time. Science. 2014;345:1565–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Purvis A, Hector A. Getting the measure of biodiversity. Nature. 2000;405:212–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee H, Habas R, Abate-Shen C. MSX1 cooperates with histone H1b for inhibition of transcription and myogenesis. Science. 2004;304:1675–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ghosh S, Rosenbaum TF, Aeppli G, Coppersmith SN. Entangled quantum state of magnetic dipoles. Nature. 2003;425:48–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ehrlich E, Fanelli D. The Financial Services Marketing Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Latifi S, editor. Information Technology: New Generations: 13th International Conference on Information Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Rosin PL, Sun X. Edge Detection Using Cellular Automata. In: Rosin P, Adamatzky A, Sun X, editors. Cellular Automata in Image Processing and Geometry. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 85–103.

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. Early Mammals May Have Gained Night Vision By Losing Ability To See Ultraviolet [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-mammals-may-have-gained-night-vision-by-losing-ability-to-see-ultraviolet/

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 Report: “National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981 Jul. Report No.: EMD-81-124.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Olanisa EL. Mental health issues and use of health care services among older immigrant women in California [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Kelly D. Face to Face With Bergman. New York Times. 1994 May 22;735.

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
Scope

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