How to format your references using the Laboratory Hazards Bulletin citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Laboratory Hazards Bulletin. 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

P. A. Sanchez, Nature, 2009, 458, 148.

A journal article with 2 authors

N. W. Cho and R. A. Greenberg, Nature, 2015, 518, 174–176.

A journal article with 3 authors

S. A. Priola, B. Chesebro and B. Caughey, Science, 2003, 300, 917–919.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

D. J. Frost, C. Liebske, F. Langenhorst, C. A. McCammon, R. G. Trønnes and D. C. Rubie, Nature, 2004, 428, 409–412.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

B. Misstear, D. Banks and L. Clark, Water Wells and Boreholes, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017.

An edited book

J. Altmann, D. Neumann and T. Fahringer, Eds., Grid Economics and Business Models: 5th International Workshop, GECON 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, vol. 5206.

A chapter in an edited book

M. E. Franklin and D. F. Tolin, in Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems, ed. D. F. Tolin, Springer, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 51–60.

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 Laboratory Hazards Bulletin.

Blog post

J. Davis, More Refined Blood Test Could Cut Possible Heart Attack Admissions By Two-Thirds, (accessed 30 October 2018).

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, Transportation Security: DHS Should Address Key Challenges before Implementing the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

G. Rossi, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

L. Saslow, New York Times, 2007, LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Laboratory Hazards Bulletin
ISSN (print)	0261-2917
ISSN (online)	1476-3915
Scope