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

Mank JE. Evolution. Sexual selection and Darwin’s mystery of mysteries. Science. 2009;326:1639–1640.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanson R, Awschalom DD. Coherent manipulation of single spins in semiconductors. Nature. 2008;453:1043–1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peñuelas J, Rutishauser T, Filella I. Ecology. Phenology feedbacks on climate change. Science. 2009;324:887–888.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Beddington J, Cooper CL, Field J, et al. The mental wealth of nations. Nature. 2008;455:1057–1060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM. The Controller’s Function. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Ras ZW, Tsay L-S, eds. Advances in Intelligent Information Systems. Vol 265. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Greenberg I, Xu D, Kumar D. Creating Across Time and Curved Space. In: Xu D, Kumar D, eds. Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2013:107–147.

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. Three Things We Have To Crack Before We Can Find Any Cures For Alzheimer’s. IFLScience. June 10, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/three-things-we-have-crack-we-can-find-any-cures-alzheimer-s/. 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. Department of Education: Status of Actions to Improve the Management of Student Financial Aid. 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

Cortez A. Life Is A Highway: Finding Your Way and Finding the Words. 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

Hussey K. Troubling Text Before a Couple Vanished in Connecticut: ‘Did You Hurt Mom?’ New York Times. September 25, 2015:A33.

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