How to format your references using the International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health. 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

de Knijff P. Genetics. How carrion and hooded crows defeat Linnaeus’s curse. Science 2014 Jun 20;344(6190):1345–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nadeau RM, McEvilly TV. Periodic pulsing of characteristic microearthquakes on the San Andreas fault. Science 2004 Jan 9;303(5655):220–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Veenstra GJ, Weeks DL, Wolffe AP. Distinct roles for TBP and TBP-like factor in early embryonic gene transcription in Xenopus. Science 2000 Dec 22;290(5500):2312–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fernandes-Alnemri T, Yu J-W, Datta P, Wu J, Alnemri ES. AIM2 activates the inflammasome and cell death in response to cytoplasmic DNA. Nature 2009 Mar 26;458(7237):509–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Horrocks G. Greek. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Mitasiunas A, Rout T, O’Connor RV, Dorling A, editors. Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 14th International Conference, SPICE 2014, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 4-6, 2014, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Vittal V, Ma F. A Hybrid Dynamic Equivalent Using ANN-Based Boundary Matching Technique. In: Chow JH, editor. Power System Coherency and Model Reduction. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 91–118.

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 Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health.

Blog post

Luntz S. The Straight Dope On The Genetics Of Cannabis. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. The Summer Feeding Program for Children: Reforms Begun--Many More Urgently Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Mar. Report No.: CED-78-90.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Serranilla M. Env7p localizes to the vacuole membrane and plays a role in vacuolar protein processing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Johnson G. Turning Nature Against Cancer. New York Times 2015 May 19;D3.

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 Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
Abbreviation	Int. J. Occup. Med. Environ. Health
ISSN (print)	1232-1087
ISSN (online)	1896-494X
Scope	General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health