How to format your references using the Occupation, Participation and Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Occupation, Participation and Health. 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

Zamir D. Botany. A wake-up call with coffee. Science. 2014;345(6201):1124.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alonso JM, Stepanova AN. The ethylene signaling pathway. Science. 2004;306(5701):1513-1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsu M, Anen C, Quartz SR. The right and the good: distributive justice and neural encoding of equity and efficiency. Science. 2008;320(5879):1092-1095.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang L, Ding X, Cui J, et al. Cysteine methylation disrupts ubiquitin-chain sensing in NF-κB activation. Nature. 2011;481(7380):204-208.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McAulay AD. Military Laser Technology for Defense. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Ma Z, ed. Soft Computing in Ontologies and Semantic Web. Vol 204. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Grinin L, Korotayev A. The Great Convergence and Globalization: How Former Colonies Became the World Economic Locomotives. In: Korotayev A, ed. Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Global Perspective. Springer International Publishing; 2015:115-158.

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 Occupation, Participation and Health.

Blog post

Davis J. Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents Play A Vital Role In Maintaining Global Climate. IFLScience.

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. Administration of the Head Start Program by the Mountain Community Action Program, Inc. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Al-Qazzaz AL. A Kinetic Study of the Radiolytic Degradation of Phthalates in Aqueous Solutions. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Greenhouse L. Justices Back Police Intervention Without a Warrant. New York Times. May 23, 2006:A22.

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	Occupation, Participation and Health
Abbreviation	OTJR (Thorofare N J)
ISSN (print)	1539-4492
ISSN (online)	1938-2383
Scope	Occupational Therapy