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. Detrick RS. Seafloor spreading. Portrait of a magma chamber. Nature. 2000;406:578–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schachman HK, Cassman M. Retrospective. Ruth L. Kirschstein (1926-2009). Science. 2009;326:947.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yartsev MM, Witter MP, Ulanovsky N. Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats. Nature. 2011;479:103–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Dubrovinsky L, Annersten H, Dubrovinskaia N, Westman F, Harryson H, Fabrichnaya O, et al. Chemical interaction of Fe and Al(2)O3 as a source of heterogeneity at the Earth’s core-mantle boundary. Nature. 2001;412:527–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Arden JB, Linford L. Brain-Based Therapy with Adults. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Bhalla S, editor. Databases in Networked Information Systems: 4th International Workshop, DNIS 2005, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, March 28-30, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Da Poian AT, Castanho MARB. Introduction to Metabolism. In: Castanho MARB, editor. Integrative Human Biochemistry: A Textbook for Medical Biochemistry. New York, NY: Springer; 2015. p. 131–56.

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. Taub B. Happy Couples See Other People As Ugly, According To Study [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/happy-couples-see-other-people-ugly/

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. The San Francisco Regional Office, 1954-1987: Interview With Harold J. D’Ambrogia, Kenneth A. Pollock, Richard A. Sheldon, and Charles F. Vincent. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Sep. Report No.: OP-20-OH.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Priddy JD-J. As Tufa to Sapphire: Gendering the Roles of Medieval Women in Combat [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2014.

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. Barron J. The Coda to a Remarkable Career: Barbara Cook Has Retired. New York Times. 2017 May 7;A19.

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