How to format your references using the Journal of Safety Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Safety Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Meselson, M. (2012). Retrospective. Paul Mead Doty (1920-2011). Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6065), 181.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dove, W., & Susman, M. (2012). Retrospective. James F. Crow (1916-2012). Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6070), 812.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karunadasa, H. I., Chang, C. J., & Long, J. R. (2010). A molecular molybdenum-oxo catalyst for generating hydrogen from water. Nature, 464(7293), 1329–1333.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yoshida, Y., Kuroiwa, H., Misumi, O., Yoshida, M., Ohnuma, M., Fujiwara, T., Yagisawa, F., Hirooka, S., Imoto, Y., Matsushita, K., Kawano, S., & Kuroiwa, T. (2010). Chloroplasts divide by contraction of a bundle of nanofilaments consisting of polyglucan. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5994), 949–953.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavi, M. R. (2016). The Impact of IFRS on Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fricker, S. A., & Schneider, K. (Eds.). (2015). Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 21st International Working Conference, REFSQ 2015, Essen, Germany, March 23-26, 2015. Proceedings (Vol. 9013). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, G. L., Chang, C. C., Chien, S. C., Tung, T. S., Lee, H. H., Ling, W. C., & Lee, H. L. (2007). Plasma-Ion Enhanced Optical Multilayer Thin-Film Coating for Consumer Electronics Products. In S. Hinduja & K.-C. Fan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th International MATADOR Conference: Formerly The International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference (pp. 17–20). Springer.

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 Safety Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 29). Homemade Magneto Shoes Let This X-Men Fan Walk On The Ceiling. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/homemade-magneto-shoes-let-x-men-fan-walk-ceiling/

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. (1993). Federal Health Care: Increased Information System Sharing Could Improve Service, Reduce Costs (IMTEC-93-33BR). 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

Blalock, J. M. (2014). The Links at St Andrews, Scotland A phenomenological hermeneutic exploration of golf’s primordial place [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Brantley, B. (2017, June 2). Delightful in Their Depravity. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meselson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dove & Susman, 2012; Meselson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Dove & Susman, 2012)
Three authors: (Karunadasa et al., 2010)
6 or more authors: (Yoshida et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Safety Research
Abbreviation	J. Safety Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-4375
Scope	Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality