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

Butler D. Report backs military axis on space. Nature. 2003;421:301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Patrinos AAN, Bradley RA. Environment. Energy and technology policies for managing carbon risk. Science. 2009;325:949–950.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfleiderer C, Julian SR, Lonzarich GG. Non-Fermi-liquid nature of the normal state of itinerant-electron ferromagnets. Nature. 2001;414:427–430.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Evason K, Huang C, Yamben I, Covey DF, Kornfeld K. Anticonvulsant medications extend worm life-span. Science. 2005;307:258–262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartmann AK, Weigt M. Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Meroni G, ed. TRIM/RBCC Proteins. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Anselmo M, Madonia M. Comparing Necessary Conditions for Recognizability of Two-Dimensional Languages. In: Winkler F, ed. Algebraic Informatics: 4th International Conference, CAI 2011, Linz, Austria, June 21-24, 2011. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011:84–96.

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 E. Pistol Shrimp Claw In Slow Motion. IFLScience. September 1, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pistol-shrimp-claw-slow-motion/. 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. Surface Infrastructure: Review of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Restructuring Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tourijigian L. Fiscal Changes at Dunbar Elementary. 2015.

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

Fernandez M, Pérez-Peña R. Fraternity Vows Broader Look Into Use of Racist Chant. New York Times. March 10, 2015:A14.

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