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

Geanakoplos J. Recession Watch: End the obsession with interest. Nature. 2009;457(7232):963.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ofek G, Diskin R. HIV. Expanding the breadth of an HIV-1 vaccine. Science. 2014;346(6215):1290-1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lillo F, Farmer JD, Mantegna RN. Econophysics: Master curve for price-impact function. Nature. 2003;421(6919):129-130.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fromme JC, Banerjee A, Huang SJ, Verdine GL. Structural basis for removal of adenine mispaired with 8-oxoguanine by MutY adenine DNA glycosylase. Nature. 2004;427(6975):652-656.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavagnini I, Magno F, Seraglia R, Traldi P. Quantitative Applications of Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Huang DS, Gan Y, Bevilacqua V, Figueroa JC, eds. Advanced Intelligent Computing: 7th International Conference, ICIC 2011, Zhengzhou, China, August 11-14, 2011. Revised Selected Papers. Vol 6838. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Moraga C. Design of Neural Networks. In: Apolloni B, Howlett RJ, Jain L, eds. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 11th International Conference, KES 2007, XVII Italian Workshop on Neural Networks, Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, September 12-14, 2007. Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2007:26-33.

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

Hale T. Unusual Artwork Showing Mongoose On A Leash Revealed In Ancient Egyptian Tomb. 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. Joint Planning and Development Office: Progress and Key Issues in Planning the Transition to the Next Generation Air Transportation System. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wead MO. Fear and Doubt. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2009.

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

Saulny S. Lawyer Faces New Charges Of Giving Support to Terrorist. New York Times. November 20, 2003:B9.

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