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

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

Basko D. Applied physics. A photothermoelectric effect in graphene. Science. 2011;334:610–611.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang G, David Lou XW. Controlled growth of NiCo₂O₄ nanorods and ultrathin nanosheets on carbon nanofibers for high-performance supercapacitors. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1470.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dhara S, Mele EJ, Agarwal R. APPLIED OPTICS. Voltage-tunable circular photogalvanic effect in silicon nanowires. Science. 2015;349:726–729.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chereau D, Boczkowska M, Skwarek-Maruszewska A, et al. Leiomodin is an actin filament nucleator in muscle cells. Science. 2008;320:239–243.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storhas W. Bioverfahrensentwicklung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Levison SW, editor. Mammalian Subventricular Zones: Their Roles in Brain Development, Cell Replacement and Disease. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Shavitt Y, Zilberman N. Internet PoP Level Maps. In: Biersack E, Callegari C, Matijasevic M, editors. Data Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: From Measurement, Classification, and Anomaly Detection to Quality of Experience. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 82–103.

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 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Blog post

Hamilton K. How To Know You’re In A Long-Term Relationship, According To Psychology. IFLScience Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-to-know-youre-in-a-long-term-relationship-according-to-psychology/. 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Bonneville’s ADP Resource Management Controls Show Improvement, but More Needs To Be Done. AFMD-83-63; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; June 22, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McLean MR. Analyzing the relationship of geographic mobility and institutional prestige to career advancement of women in academic medicine pursuing midcareer-, senior-, or executive-level administrative positions: Implications for career advancement strategies. Doctoral Dissertation; George Washington University; 2010.

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

Branch J. The Deflategate Scientists Unlock Their Lab. New York Times, September 21, 2016, p. SP1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
ISSN (print)	1076-2752
ISSN (online)	1536-5948
Scope