How to format your references using the Injury Prevention citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Injury Prevention. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Watanabe S. Slow or fast? A tale of synaptic vesicle recycling. Science. 2015;350:46–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wenseleers T, Ratnieks FLW. Enforced altruism in insect societies. Nature. 2006;444:50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garlaschelli D, Caldarelli G, Pietronero L. Universal scaling relations in food webs. Nature. 2003;423:165–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Soden BJ, Jackson DL, Ramaswamy V, et al. The radiative signature of upper tropospheric moistening. Science. 2005;310:841–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon J. Banach, Fréchet, Hilbert and Neumann Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2017.

An edited book

Roesky PW, editor. Molecular Catalysis of Rare-Earth Elements. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Gülan U, Lüthi B, Holzner M, et al. An In Vitro Analysis of the Influence of the Arterial Stiffness on the Aortic Flow Using Three-Dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry. In: Roa Romero LM, ed. XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013: MEDICON 2013, 25-28 September 2013, Seville, Spain. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2014:23–6.

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 Injury Prevention.

Blog post

Hale T. Students Launch Rocket With A 3D-Printed Engine. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/students-launch-rocket-totally-3d-printed-engine/ (accessed 30 October 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. New Navajo Construction Activities on the Navajo and Hopi Joint-Use Area. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brugna RA. Augmenting the clinical clerkship curriculum of a physician assistant training program with distance education technology: Educational outcomes and student perceptions. 2008.

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

Ryerson J. University Presses. New York Times. 2016;BR35.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Injury Prevention
Abbreviation	Inj. Prev.
ISSN (print)	1353-8047
ISSN (online)	1475-5785
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health