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

Wurtz RH. Retrospective. David H. Hubel (1926-2013). Science. 2013;342:572.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hedstrom L, Frey PA. Robert H. Abeles (1926-2000). Nature. 2000;407:854.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yelshanskaya MV, Li M, Sobolevsky AI. Structure of an agonist-bound ionotropic glutamate receptor. Science. 2014;345:1070–1074.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chi P, Chen Y, Zhang L, et al. ETV1 is a lineage survival factor that cooperates with KIT in gastrointestinal stromal tumours. Nature. 2010;467:849–853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mallée R, Fuchs W, Eligehausen R. Design of Fastenings for Use in Concrete - the CEN/TS 1992-4 Provisions. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Bickhoff N. The Quintessence of Marketing: What You Really Need to Know to Manage Your Marketing Activities. (Hollensen S, Opresnik M, eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Chrysoulas C, Sklavos N. Resource Management and Service Deployment in Grids. In: Preve NP, ed. Grid Computing: Towards a Global Interconnected Infrastructure. Computer Communications and Networks. London: Springer; 2011:123–143.

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

Davis J. New Species Of Pliosaur Discovered In Russia. IFLScience. May 26, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-of-pliosaur-discovered-in-russia/. 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. State Department: The July 2006 Evacuation of American Citizens from Lebanon. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vallaster JR. Recognizing and Supporting the Forgotten Poverty Frontier: Exploring Suburban School Poverty in Elementary Schools. 2019.

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. ‘Idol’ Reboot Joins Roster Of Revivals. New York Times. May 9, 2017:C1.

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