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

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

1. Beutler E. Cell biology. “Pumping” iron: the proteins. Science. 2004;306:2051–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Junge W, Müller DJ. Biochemistry. Seeing a molecular motor at work. Science. 2011;333:704–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kiesel H, Renz A, Hasselbach F. Observation of Hanbury Brown-Twiss anticorrelations for free electrons. Nature. 2002;418:392–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Schönbächler M, Rehkämper M, Halliday AN, Lee D-C, Bourot-Denise M, Zanda B, et al. Niobium-zirconium chronometry and early solar system development. Science. 2002;295:1705–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. Centrifugal Pumps (Newtonian Liquids). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2002.

An edited book

1. Salyapongse AN, Poore SO, Afifi AM, Bentz ML, editors. Extremity Replantation: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Meyer D, Bodenheimer HC. Extrahepatic Manifestations of Chronic Hepatitis C Infection. In: Shetty K, Wu GY, editors. Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Diagnosis and Therapeutics. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2010. p. 135–57.

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 Medicine and Toxicology.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Astronomers Released 3D Map Of The Milky Way’s Dust [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-released-3d-map-of-the-milky-way-dust/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Federal Research: Two Political Science Grants Awarded by the National Science Foundation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Mar. Report No.: RCED-98-91R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Yates SL. Asian Indian women with gestational diabetes improving care for mothers and babies “Dals, Dosas and me” [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Burghardt LF. After 63 Years, A Boardwalk Is Back. New York Times. 2007 Jul 29;LI11.

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	Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
Abbreviation	J. Occup. Med. Toxicol.
ISSN (online)	1745-6673
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Toxicology Safety Research