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

Gould J. Gene therapy: Genie in a vector. Nature 2014 Nov 27;515(7528):S160-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson C, Jasin M. Frequent chromosomal translocations induced by DNA double-strand breaks. Nature 2000 Jun 8;405(6787):697–700.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolfsberg TG, McEntyre J, Schuler GD. Guide to the draft human genome. Nature 2001 Feb 15;409(6822):824–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boland MJ, Hazen JL, Nazor KL, Rodriguez AR, Gifford W, Martin G, et al. Adult mice generated from induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature 2009 Sep 3;461(7260):91–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Castillo E, Cobo A, Jubete F, Pruneda RE. Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.

An edited book

Kowalik JS, Gorski J, Sachenko A, editors. Cyberspace Security and Defense: Research Issues: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Cyberspace Security and Defense: Research Issues Gdansk, Poland 6–9 September 2004. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Harrison J. Automating Elementary Number-Theoretic Proofs Using Gröbner Bases. In: Pfenning F, editor. Automated Deduction – CADE-21: 21st International Conference on Automated Deduction Bremen, Germany, July 17-20, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 51–66.

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

Andrew D. Early Signs Show Legal High Ban Is Pushing Sales From The High Street To Street Dealers [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/early-signs-show-legal-high-ban-is-pushing-sales-from-the-high-street-to-street-dealers/

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. Revision of FCC Rules to Ensure Compatibility with Enhanced 911 Emergency Calling Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Aug. Report No.: OGC-96-34.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sharp K. The Epistolary Form: A Familiar Fiction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2016.

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

Gottlieb S, Emanuel EJ. No, There Won’t Be a Doctor Shortage. New York Times 2013 Dec 5;A35.

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