How to format your references using the Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine (ASEM). 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

Axtell RL. Zipf distribution of U.S. firm sizes. Science 2001; 293:1818–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smaglik P, Smith A. A route to flexible working. Nature 2002; 415:4–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alarousu E, AlSaggaf A, Jabbour GE. Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kasturi SP, Skountzou I, Albrecht RA, Koutsonanos D, Hua T, Nakaya HI, et al. Programming the magnitude and persistence of antibody responses with innate immunity. Nature 2011; 470:543–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dooner DB. Kinematic Geometry of Gearing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Scerri P, Vincent R, Mailler R, editors. Coordination of Large-Scale Multiagent Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Radulov G, Quinn P, Hegt H, van Roermund A. Smart Self-Correcting D/A Converters. In: Quinn P, Hegt H, van Roermund AHM, eds. Smart and Flexible Digital-to-Analog Converters. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011:43–55.

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 Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. Stars Predicted To Average Two Planets In Habitable Zone. IFLScience. 2015; Retrieved 30 October 2018 from https://www.iflscience.com/space/stars-predicted-average-two-planets-habitable-zone/

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. Transportation Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992. No: OCG-93-14TR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hitchins MG. Domain Disparity: Informing the Debate between Domain-General and Domain-Specific Information Processing in Working Memory [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2017.

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

Crow K. A Mystery in Harlem. New York Times. 2002; :141.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2,4).
This sentence cites four references (4,5,7,8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine
Abbreviation	Aviat. Space Environ. Med.
ISSN (print)	0095-6562
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health