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]

Sykes MV. Planetary science. The planet debate continues. Science 2008;319:1765.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Grayson M, Pincock S. Nature Index 2015 Collaborations. Nature 2015;527:S49.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wang A, Kurdistani SK, Grunstein M. Requirement of Hos2 histone deacetylase for gene activity in yeast. Science 2002;298:1412–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ko YN, Park SB, Choi SH, Kang YC. One-pot synthesis of manganese oxide-carbon composite microspheres with three dimensional channels for Li-ion batteries. Sci Rep 2014;4:5751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Reschetilowski W. Technisch-Chemisches Praktikum. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2002.

An edited book

[1]

Mühlhäuser M, Ferscha A, Aitenbichler E, editors. Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI 2007 Workshops Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007 Revised Papers. vol. 11. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kryazhev YG, Solodovnichenko VS, Drozdov VA, Likholobov VA. Carbon Adsorbents with Adjustable Porous Structure Formed in the Chemical Dehydro-Halogenation of Halogenated Polymers. In: Mikhalovsky S, Khajibaev A, editors. Biodefence: Advanced Materials and Methods for Health Protection, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 33–40.

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]

Andrew E. Brains, Genes And Chemical Imbalances – How Explanations Of Mental Illness Affect Stigma. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brains-genes-and-chemical-imbalances-–-how-explanations-mental-illness-affect-stigma/ (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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA Faces Implementation Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mueller K. Biases in the Selection Process Against Applicants with Tattoos. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 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]

Billard M. Cozying Up To a Classic. New York Times 2010:E6.

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

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