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. Farah MJ. NEUROSCIENCE. The unknowns of cognitive enhancement. Science. 2015;350:379–80.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lipinski C, Hopkins A. Navigating chemical space for biology and medicine. Nature. 2004;432:855–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tay Y, Rinn J, Pandolfi PP. The multilayered complexity of ceRNA crosstalk and competition. Nature. 2014;505:344–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hoffman LR, D’Argenio DA, MacCoss MJ, Zhang Z, Jones RA, Miller SI. Aminoglycoside antibiotics induce bacterial biofilm formation. Nature. 2005;436:1171–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Eric G. F, Yvonne R. Growing Pains. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Chuvieco E, editor. Earth Observation of Global Change: The Role of Satellite Remote Sensing in Monitoring the Global Environment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cioranescu D, Girault V, Rajagopal KR. Grade-Two Fluids: Some Theoretical Results. In: Girault V, Rajagopal KR, editors. Mechanics and Mathematics of Fluids of the Differential Type. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 179–310.

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. Andrew E. Obesity In Teenage Years Linked With Bowel Cancer Later In Life [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/obesity-teenage-years-linked-bowel-cancer-later-life/

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. Undergraduate Helicopter Pilot Training: Consolidation Could Yield Significant Savings. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Jan. Report No.: FPCD-80-37.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wuite J. Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Three East Antarctic Outlet Glaciers and Their Floating Ice Tongues [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2006.

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. Poniewozik J. The ‘Nasty’ Women of the 1960s. New York Times. 2016 Oct 27;C1.

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

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