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

Aebischer, P. (2012). Philanthropy: The price of charity. Nature, 481(7381), 260.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher, H. S., & Hoekstra, H. E. (2010). Competition drives cooperation among closely related sperm of deer mice. Nature, 463(7282), 801–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

Werner, S. C., Ody, A., & Poulet, F. (2014). The source crater of martian shergottite meteorites. Science (New York, N.Y.), 343(6177), 1343–1346.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

George, D., Lehrach, W., Kansky, K., Lázaro-Gredilla, M., Laan, C., Marthi, B., Lou, X., Meng, Z., Liu, Y., Wang, H., Lavin, A., & Phoenix, D. S. (2017). A generative vision model that trains with high data efficiency and breaks text-based CAPTCHAs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 358(6368).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sestina, J. E. (2016). Planning a Successful Future. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bortz, J. H., Ramlaul, A., & Munro, L. (Eds.). (2016). CT Colonography for Radiographers: A Guide to Performance and Image Interpretation. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Schaeffter, T., & Dahnke, H. (2008). Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy. In W. Semmler & M. Schwaiger (Eds.), Molecular Imaging I (pp. 75–90). 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, E. (2014, August 5). What Would Happen To Your Body In Space Without A Spacesuit? IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2004). Maritime Law Exemption: Exemption Provides Limited Competitive Advantage, but Barriers to Further Entry under U.S. Flag Remain (GAO-04-421). 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

Bade, L. L. (2010). Extending the benefits of alcohol and drug treatment: An exploration of volunteer utilization and delivery of recovery services [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine 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

Michael Kelly With. (1992, July 8). THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; Detective for Perot Describes Inquiry Into a Rival Business. 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 (Aebischer, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Aebischer, 2012; Fisher & Hoekstra, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Fisher & Hoekstra, 2010)
Three or more authors: (George et al., 2017)

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