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

Moore P. Antibodies where you want them. Nature. 2003;426:729.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brookes D, Etkina E. SPORE series winner. Physical phenomena in real time. Science. 2010;330:605–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giulini A, Wang J, Jackson D. Control of phyllotaxy by the cytokinin-inducible response regulator homologue ABPHYL1. Nature. 2004;430:1031–4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

O’Donnell KA, Wentzel EA, Zeller KI, et al. c-Myc-regulated microRNAs modulate E2F1 expression. Nature. 2005;435:839–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dujmović D, Androić B, Lukačević I. Composite Structures According to Eurocode 4. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH 2014.

An edited book

Younos T, Parece TE, editors. Sustainable Water Management in Urban Environments. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Muñoz A, Serrano D, Maña A. Secure Profiles as a Cornerstone in Emerging Ambient Intelligence Scenarios. In: Rudolph C, ed. Developing Ambient Intelligence: Proceedings of the International Conference on Ambient Intelligence Developments (AmI.d’07). Paris: Springer 2008:34–46.

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

Andrew E. Trapping Light In A ‘Tornado’ Could Have Major Implications. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/trapping-light-tornado-could-have-major-implications/ (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. Civil Aviation Research and Development Programs and Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Steigner T. A study of cross -border takeovers: Examining the impact of national culture on internalization benefits, and the implications of early versus late -mover status for bidders and their rivals. 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

Walsh MW. Pension Fraud By New Jersey Cited by S.E.C. New York Times. 2010;A1.

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