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. Smaglik P. Reinventing the silk road. Nature. 2004;428:236–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hupp JT, Poeppelmeier KR. Chemistry. Better living through nanopore chemistry. Science. 2005;309:2008–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Polleux F, Morrow T, Ghosh A. Semaphorin 3A is a chemoattractant for cortical apical dendrites. Nature. 2000;404:567–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gu Z, Pandya S, Samanta A, Liu S, Xiao G, Meyers CJG, et al. Resonant domain-wall-enhanced tunable microwave ferroelectrics. Nature. 2018;560:622–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dickenson J, Freeman F, Mills CL, Sivasubramaniam S, Thode C. Molecular Pharmacology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Ginsburg M, editor. Preparation, Practice, and Politics of Teachers: Problems and Prospects in Comparative Perspective. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hunger SP, Conter V, Raetz EA, Valsecchi MG, Henze G. Classification and Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. In: Reaman GH, Smith FO, editors. Childhood Leukemia: A Practical Handbook. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 79–120.

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. Andrews R. Ancient Human Sacrifices Found Under Walls Of Korean Castle. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Low-Income and Minority Serving Institutions: Department of Education Could Improve Its Monitoring and Assistance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Sep. Report No.: GAO-04-961.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Charpentier DT. Why Dey Talk Like Dat?: A Study of the Status of Cajun English as a Dialect or an Accent [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

1. Conte L. Scouting Report. New York Times. 2011 May 12;E7.

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