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

Russell P (2003) Photonic crystal fibers. Science 299:358–362

A journal article with 2 authors

Bae B-I, Walsh CA (2013) Neuroscience. What are mini-brains? Science 342:200–201

A journal article with 3 authors

Meissner M, Schlüter D, Soldati D (2002) Role of Toxoplasma gondii myosin A in powering parasite gliding and host cell invasion. Science 298:837–840

A journal article with 5 or more authors

McGuire AL, Cho MK, McGuire SE, Caulfield T (2007) Medicine. The future of personal genomics. Science 317:1687

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beecken WH, Beecken CA (2017) Fraud Examination Casebook with Documents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nath TK (2016) Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) in Bangladesh. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Zheltikov A, LʼHuillier A, Krausz F (2012) Nonlinear Optics. In: Träger F (ed) Springer Handbook of Lasers and Optics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 161–251

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

Andrews R (2016) Rapid Evolution Lets Tasmanian Devils Fight Back Against Fatal Cancer. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rapid-evolution-tasmanian-devils-fight-back-against-fatal-cancer/. 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 (2013) Transit Asset Management: Additional Research on Capital Investment Effects Could Help Transit Agencies Optimize Funding. 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

Weisko P (2017) Wading Tiger Swimming Dragon: A Study on Comparative Indo-Sino Naval Development. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Protess B (2016) MF Global’s Fall May Cost Corzine About $5 Million. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Russell 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Russell 2003; Bae and Walsh 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bae and Walsh 2013)
Three or more authors: (McGuire et al. 2007)

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