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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Occupational Science. 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

Morris, P. (2013). Joseph E. Murray (1919-2012). Nature, 493(7431), 164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seddon, N., & Bearpark, T. (2003). Observation of the inverse Doppler effect. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5650), 1537–1540.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biswas, A. K., Atulasimha, J., & Bandyopadhyay, S. (2014). An error-resilient non-volatile magneto-elastic universal logic gate with ultralow energy-delay product. Scientific Reports, 4, 7553.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Uehlein, N., Lovisolo, C., Siefritz, F., & Kaldenhoff, R. (2003). The tobacco aquaporin NtAQP1 is a membrane CO2 pore with physiological functions. Nature, 425(6959), 734–737.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson, M. D. (2016). Great Myths of Intimate Relationships. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Meersman, R., Tari, Z., & Herrero, P. (Eds.). (2007). On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium, MONET, OnToContent, ORM, PerSys, PPN, RDDS, SSWS, and SWWS 2007, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 4805). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Stanta, G. (2015). Tissue Heterogeneity as a Pre-analytical Source of Variability. In M. Dietel, C. Wittekind, G. Bussolati, & M. von Winterfeld (Eds.), Pre-Analytics of Pathological Specimens in Oncology (pp. 35–43). Springer International Publishing.

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 Science.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, January 15). Ancient Toolmaking May Have Driven the Evolution of Human Language. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-toolmaking-may-have-driven-evolution-human-language/

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

Government Accountability Office. (2013). Indian Affairs: Better Management and Accountability Needed to Improve Indian Education (GAO-13-774). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spindel, S. A. (2014). Evaluation of optical sensor platforms for multiplexed detection of proteins [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, October 27). Political Journalist Halperin Posts Apology to Women He ‘Mistreated.’ New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Morris, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Morris, 2013; Seddon & Bearpark, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Seddon & Bearpark, 2003)
Three authors: (Biswas et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Uehlein et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Occupational Science
Abbreviation	J. Occup. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1442-7591
ISSN (online)	2158-1576
Scope	Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science