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. Andersson SGE. Genetics. The bacterial world gets smaller. Science. 2006;314:259–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ren B-C, Deng F-G. Hyper-parallel photonic quantum computation with coupled quantum dots. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4623.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Otterbein LR, Graceffa P, Dominguez R. The crystal structure of uncomplexed actin in the ADP state. Science. 2001;293:708–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Vilkov O, Fedorov A, Usachov D, Yashina LV, Generalov AV, Borygina K, et al. Controlled assembly of graphene-capped nickel, cobalt and iron silicides. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2168.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Norwitz ER, Belfort MA, Saade GR, Miller H. Obstetric Clinical Algorithms: Management and Evidence. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Djokić SS, editor. Electrochemical Production of Metal Powders. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Susperregi L, Sierra B, Martínez-Otzeta JM, Lazkano E, Ansuategui A. A Layered Learning Approach to 3D Multimodal People Detection Using Low-Cost Sensors in a Mobile Robot. In: Novais P, Hallenborg K, Tapia DI, Rodríguez JMC, editors. Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications: 3rd International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2012). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 27–33.

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. Fang J. Galapagos Birds are Adding Flowers to their Diet. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. NASA’s Space Vision: Business Case for Prometheus 1 Needed to Ensure Requirements Match Available Resources. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Feb. Report No.: GAO-05-242.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Whitbeck DC. Mapping of Sonoran Desert vegetation communities of San Cristobal Valley and southern Sentinel Plains, Barry M. Goldwater Range and variables influencing route proliferation in the Barry M. Goldwater Range’s San Cristobal Valley [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2013.

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. Leland J. Glimpses of Vanishing Harlem. New York Times. 2017 Mar 9;MB7.

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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