How to format your references using the Indoor Air citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indoor Air. 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

Venkatraman V. Working life. The space roboticist. Science. 2015;349:338.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang X, Ha T. Defining single molecular forces required to activate integrin and notch signaling. Science. 2013;340:991–994.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitfield CW, Cziko A-M, Robinson GE. Gene expression profiles in the brain predict behavior in individual honey bees. Science. 2003;302:296–299.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kuhara A, Okumura M, Kimata T, et al. Temperature sensing by an olfactory neuron in a circuit controlling behavior of C. elegans. Science. 2008;320:803–807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grose M. Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Uitto JI, Shaw R, eds. Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction. 1st ed. 2016. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun Y, Yin L. Facial Expression Recognition Based on 3D Dynamic Range Model Sequences. In: Forsyth D, Torr P, Zisserman A, eds. Computer Vision – ECCV 2008: 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, Marseille, France, October 12-18, 2008, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008:58–71.

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 Indoor Air.

Blog post

Andrew D. Scientists May Have Proven Women Are Better at Multitasking than Men. IFLScience. January 27, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-may-have-proven-women-are-better-at-multitasking-than-men/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Intermodal Freight Transportation: Projects and Planning Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

LaPorte M. Depression and Rumination as a Predictor for Types of Substances Abused. 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

Koblin J. Before Series Debut, FX Says ‘Feud’ Will Endure. New York Times. February 28, 2017:B6.

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	Indoor Air
Abbreviation	Indoor Air
ISSN (print)	0905-6947
ISSN (online)	1600-0668
Scope	Building and Construction Environmental Engineering Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health