How to format your references using the International Journal of Fatigue citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Fatigue. 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

[1]

Fusi S. Neuroscience. A quiescent working memory. Science 2008;319:1495–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

DeConto RM, Pollard D. Rapid Cenozoic glaciation of Antarctica induced by declining atmospheric CO2. Nature 2003;421:245–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Li S, Matthews J, Sinha A. Atmospheric hydroxyl radical production from electronically excited NO2 and H2O. Science 2008;319:1657–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lay AJ, Jiang XM, Kisker O, Flynn E, Underwood A, Condron R, et al. Phosphoglycerate kinase acts in tumour angiogenesis as a disulphide reductase. Nature 2000;408:869–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yamarone R. The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Leite J, Torroni P, Ågotnes T, Boella G, Torre L van der, editors. Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 12th International Workshop, CLIMA XII, Barcelona, Spain, July 17-18, 2011. Proceedings. vol. 6814. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bal C, Fleck N. Connected Stadium: A Pillar for Football Clubs’ Marketing Development? In: Plewa C, Conduit J, editors. Making a Difference Through Marketing: A Quest for Diverse Perspectives, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 43–58.

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 Journal of Fatigue.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti C. New Stem Cell Method Produces Millions of Human Brain Cells In Days. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-stem-cell-method-produces-millions-of-human-brain-cells-in-days/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Army Aviation Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Johnson NJ. Queered. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Koblin J. Carol Burnett to Star, Amy Poehler to Produce. New York Times 2016:C3.

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	International Journal of Fatigue
Abbreviation	Int. J. Fatigue
ISSN (print)	0142-1123
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Modelling and Simulation