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

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

Wilczek, F., 2000. Particle physics. Backyard exotica. Nature 404, 452–453.

A journal article with 2 authors

Plaçais, P.-Y., Preat, T., 2013. To favor survival under food shortage, the brain disables costly memory. Science 339, 440–442.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jarillo-Herrero, P., van Dam, J.A., Kouwenhoven, L.P., 2006. Quantum supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes. Nature 439, 953–956.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pennartz, C.M.A., de Jeu, M.T.G., Bos, N.P.A., Schaap, J., Geurtsen, A.M.S., 2002. Diurnal modulation of pacemaker potentials and calcium current in the mammalian circadian clock. Nature 416, 286–290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McBain, G.D., 2012. Theory of Lift. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Parker, D. (Ed.), 2014. Bacterial Activation of Type I Interferons. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Picozza, E., 2016. Problems About Enforcement, in: Picozza, E. (Ed.), Neurolaw: An Introduction. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79–117.

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 Industrial Ergonomics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. The Huge “Asteroid” Set To Fly Past Earth Today Is Actually A Dead Comet - And It Looks Just Like A Skull! [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Army Reserve Officer Education (No. NSIAD-93-197R). 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

Shen, F.-Y., 2009. A pedagogical and analytic comparison of Auguste Franchomme’s twelve Caprices, op. 7 and Alfredo Piatti’s twelve Caprices, op. 25 (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Billard, M., 2010. Whimsical Boyfriends. New York Times E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilczek, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Plaçais and Preat, 2013; Wilczek, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Plaçais and Preat, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Pennartz et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Ind. Ergon.
ISSN (print)	0169-8141
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Human Factors and Ergonomics