How to format your references using the Occupational Medicine citation style

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

Kormendy J. ASTRONOMY: Enhanced: Monsters at the Heart of Galaxy Formation. Science 2000 Sep 1;289(5484):1484–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enserink M, Chin G. The end of privacy. Introduction. Science 2015 Jan 30;347(6221):490–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hamlin JK, Wynn K, Bloom P. Social evaluation by preverbal infants. Nature 2007 Nov 22;450(7169):557–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Santer BD, Po-Chedley S, Zelinka MD, Cvijanovic I, Bonfils C, Durack PJ, et al. Human influence on the seasonal cycle of tropospheric temperature. Science 2018 Jul 20;361(6399).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler H. Food Industry Innovation School, The. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Tominaga J. Optical Near-Field Recording: Science and Technology. Nakano T, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Shim S, Ming G-L. Signaling of Secreted Semaphorins in Growth Cone Steering. In: Pasterkamp RJ, editor. Semaphorins: Receptor and Intracellular Signaling Mechanisms New York, NY: Springer; 2007. p. 52–60.

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 Occupational Medicine.

Blog post

Fang J. Existence of Exotic Hadron Confirmed [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/existence-exotic-hadron-confirmed/

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. USDA Telecommunications: Missed Opportunities to Save Millions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Apr. Report No.: AIMD-95-97.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ward VJ. A study of the perceptions of first-year teachers as prepared classroom teachers [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2015.

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

Kelly D. STEAL THIS REVIEW. New York Times 1990 Mar 11;719.

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 Medicine
Abbreviation	Occup. Med. (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	0962-7480
ISSN (online)	1471-8405
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health