How to format your references using the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. 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. Janin J. Biochemistry. Dicey assemblies. Science. 2008;319:165–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Romano M, Cifelli RL. Geology. 100 years of continental drift. Science. 2015;350:915–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Feinstein NW, Allen S, Jenkins E. Outside the pipeline: reimagining science education for nonscientists. Science. 2013;340:314–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Racki LR, Yang JG, Naber N, Partensky PD, Acevedo A, Purcell TJ, et al. The chromatin remodeller ACF acts as a dimeric motor to space nucleosomes. Nature. 2009;462:1016–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Engle CR, Quagrainie KK, Dey MM. Seafood and Aquaculture Marketing Handbook. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Miransari M, editor. Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses: Volume 2: Alleviation of Soil Stress by PGPR and Mycorrhizal Fungi. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sadia Y, Ben-Yehuda O, Gelbstein Y. Highly Efficient Segmented p-type Thermoelectric Leg. In: Zlatic V, Hewson A, editors. New Materials for Thermoelectric Applications: Theory and Experiment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 59–65.

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 Rehabilitation.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Watch Water Droplets Explode As They Freeze From The Outside In [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/watch-water-droplets-explode-as-they-freeze-from-the-outside-in/

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. Feasibility of Treating Contractors’ Independent Research and Development Costs as a Budget Line Item. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Mar. Report No.: B-164912.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rosenberg EL. Learning to live: The clinical importance of first-person accounts of recovery from anorexia nervosa [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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. Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. Arts, Briefly; Returning Seized Art. New York Times. 2005 Dec 26;E2.

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 Rehabilitation
Abbreviation	J. Occup. Rehabil.
ISSN (print)	1053-0487
ISSN (online)	1573-3688
Scope	Rehabilitation Occupational Therapy