How to format your references using the Occupational and Environmental Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 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

Yarus M. Molecular biology. Climbing in 190 dimensions. Science. 2011;332:181–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sui H, Downing KH. Molecular architecture of axonemal microtubule doublets revealed by cryo-electron tomography. Nature. 2006;442:475–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith MH, Ploegh HL, Weissman JS. Road to ruin: targeting proteins for degradation in the endoplasmic reticulum. Science. 2011;334:1086–90.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li Y, Jalil MBA, Tan SG, et al. Chiral tunneling modulated by a time-periodic potential on the surface states of a topological insulator. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4624.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon T, Grossman S. Moderating Severe Personality Disorders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007.

An edited book

Rios P de M. Symbol Correspondences for Spin Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakagawa S, Duman RS. Depression. In: Seki T, Sawamoto K, Parent JM, et al., eds. Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain II: Clinical Implications. Tokyo: Springer Japan 2011:99–108.

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 Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Blog post

Hale T. Boeing Wants To Race SpaceX To The Surface Of Mars. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/boeing-wants-to-race-spacex-to-the-surface-of-mars/ (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. FCC: Flexible Service Offerings in the Commercial Mobile Radio Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wahid R. Quality of life of cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. 2012.

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

Barron J. A Band Helps the East Village Heal After a Devastating Gas Explosion. New York Times. 2016;A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Abbreviation	Occup. Environ. Med.
ISSN (print)	1351-0711
ISSN (online)	1470-7926
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health