How to format your references using the International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Launius, R. D. (2012). Neil Armstrong (1930-2012). Nature, 489(7416), 368.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thomas, G. L., & Thorne, R. E. (2001). Night-time predation by Steller sea lions. Nature, 411(6841), 1013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Taniyasu, Y., Kasu, M., & Makimoto, T. (2006). An aluminium nitride light-emitting diode with a wavelength of 210 nanometres. Nature, 441(7091), 325–328.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Abzhanov, A., Kuo, W. P., Hartmann, C., Grant, B. R., Grant, P. R., & Tabin, C. J. (2006). The calmodulin pathway and evolution of elongated beak morphology in Darwin’s finches. Nature, 442(7102), 563–567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krimpmann, A. (2015). Principles of Group Accounting under IFRS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Magnuson, J. A., & Fu, P. C., Jr. (Eds.). (2014). Public Health Informatics and Information Systems (2nd ed. 2014). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gowers, W. T. (2011). How do IMO Problems Compare with Research Problems? In D. Schleicher & M. Lackmann (Eds.), An Invitation to Mathematics: From Competitions to Research (pp. 55–69). Springer.

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 Injury Control and Safety Promotion.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, October 20). Will AI Spell The End Of Humanity? The Tech Industry Wants You To Think So. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/will-ai-spell-the-end-of-humanity-the-tech-industry-wants-you-to-think-so/

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. (1995). Transportation Trust Funds (AIMD-95-95R). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramos, C. M. (2017). Is this working? A study on measuring the effectiveness of efforts to diversify the theatre management field [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Gillis, J. (2017, January 18). For Third Year, the Earth in 2016 Set Heat Record. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Launius, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Launius, 2012; Thomas & Thorne, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Thomas & Thorne, 2001)
Three authors: (Taniyasu et al., 2006)
6 or more authors: (Abzhanov et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
Abbreviation	Int. J. Inj. Contr. Saf. Promot.
ISSN (print)	1745-7300
ISSN (online)	1745-7319
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety Research