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

Hellemans A. SPACE SCIENCE: Europe Set to Work on Hubble’s Replacement. Science 2000 Sep 22;289(5487):2019a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao X, Wang K. Strength of stick-slip and creeping subduction megathrusts from heat flow observations. Science 2014 Aug 29;345(6200):1038–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Loenhout MTJ, de Grunt MV, Dekker C. Dynamics of DNA supercoils. Science 2012 Oct 5;338(6103):94–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ochiai H, Sugawara T, Sakuma T, Yamamoto T. Stochastic promoter activation affects Nanog expression variability in mouse embryonic stem cells. Sci. Rep. 2014 Nov 20;4:7125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Buckel W, Kleiner R. Supraleitung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Kahraman C, Yanik S, editors. Intelligent Decision Making in Quality Management: Theory and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bondarenko V, Troyanova G, Balucani M, Ferrari A. Porous Silicon Based SOI: History and Prospects. In: Flandre D, Nazarov AN, Hemment PLF, editors. Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Science and Technology of Semiconductor-On-Insulator Structures and Devices Operating in a Harsh Environment Kiev, Ukraine 26–30 April 2004. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. p. 53–64.

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

Fang J. Skydiver Almost Hit by Meteorite [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/skydiver-almost-hit-meteorite/

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. Information Technology: Justice Plans to Improve Oversight of Agency Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Nov. Report No.: GAO-03-135.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Friedman DE. Characterization of Organic Matter in Suspended Sediments Via Pyrolysis and Oxidation [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

Ryerson J. University Presses. New York Times 2017 Aug 25;BR35.

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