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

Steinhardt P. Big Bang blunder bursts the multiverse bubble. Nature. 2014;510(7503):9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dubrulle J, Pourquié O. fgf8 mRNA decay establishes a gradient that couples axial elongation to patterning in the vertebrate embryo. Nature. 2004;427(6973):419-422.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rosenthal Y, Linsley BK, Oppo DW. Pacific Ocean heat content during the past 10,000 years. Science. 2013;342(6158):617-621.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Voets T, Droogmans G, Wissenbach U, Janssens A, Flockerzi V, Nilius B. The principle of temperature-dependent gating in cold- and heat-sensitive TRP channels. Nature. 2004;430(7001):748-754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wartewig S. IR and Raman Spectroscopy. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Semrud-Clikeman M. Child Neuropsychology: Assessment and Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2nd ed. (Ellison PAT, ed.). Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Goodyer P. Renal Dysplasia/Hypoplasia. In: Avner E, Harmon W, Niaudet P, Yoshikawa N, eds. Pediatric Nephrology: Sixth Completely Revised, Updated and Enlarged Edition. Springer; 2009:107-120.

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

Andrew D. How Cute Things Hijack Our Brains And Drive Behaviour. 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. Highway Trust Fund: Overview of Highway Trust Fund Estimates. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Buckowski M. A Wave of Navy Blue Churning. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

McNAMARA J. Falling Through Time. New York Times. September 8, 2017:BR14.

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

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