How to format your references using the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. 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

Knight PL (2005) Physics. The observation of matter wave fluctuations. Science 310:631–632

A journal article with 2 authors

Cadwell K, Coscoy L (2005) Ubiquitination on nonlysine residues by a viral E3 ubiquitin ligase. Science 309:127–130

A journal article with 3 authors

Gubbins D, Jones AL, Finlay CC (2006) Fall in Earth’s magnetic field is erratic. Science 312:900–902

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pelling AE, Sehati S, Gralla EB, et al (2004) Local nanomechanical motion of the cell wall of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 305:1147–1150

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ledolter J (2013) Data Mining and Business Analytics with R. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gudehus T (2012) Comprehensive Logistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Luo S, Chen Y, Hu J, Chen Z (2011) New Fully Secure Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption with Constant Size Ciphertexts. In: Bao F, Weng J (eds) Information Security Practice and Experience: 7th International Conference, ISPEC 2011, Guangzhou, China, May 30 – June 1, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–70

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 International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This Swallowable Origami Robot Can Retrieve Stuff From Your Stomach. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988) Engineering Research Centers: NSF Program Management and Industry Sponsorship. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Khalili A (2017) Spectrally formulated user-defined element in Abaqus for wave motion analysis and health monitoring of composite structures. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Burghardt LF (2008) ‘Traffic Calming’ Theory Can Provoke a Storm. New York Times LI5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Cadwell and Coscoy 2005; Knight 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Cadwell and Coscoy 2005)
Three or more authors: (Pelling et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
Abbreviation	Int. Arch. Occup. Environ. Health
ISSN (print)	0340-0131
ISSN (online)	1432-1246
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health