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

Gottesman D. Physics. Jump-starting quantum error correction with entanglement. Science 2006 Oct 20;314(5798):427–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gebbers R, Adamchuk VI. Precision agriculture and food security. Science 2010 Feb 12;327(5967):828–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

Larson KM, Bodin P, Gomberg J. Using 1-Hz GPS data to measure deformations caused by the Denali fault earthquake. Science 2003 May 30;300(5624):1421–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sakai H, Honma T, Aoyama T, Sato S, Kato T, Tabata S, et al. ARR1, a transcription factor for genes immediately responsive to cytokinins. Science 2001 Nov 16;294(5546):1519–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camarillo G, García-Martín MA. The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Ward AC, editor. STAT Inhibitors in Cancer. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Scott JR, Effenberger AJ, Hatch JJ. Influence of Atmospheric Pressure and Composition on LIBS. In: Musazzi S, Perini U, editors. Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Theory and Applications Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 91–116.

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

Davis J. Forests Cover 9 Percent More Of Earth Than Thought [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/forests-cover-9-percent-more-of-earth-than-thought/

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. Aviation Competition: Effects on Consumers from Domestic Airline Alliances Vary. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Jan. Report No.: RCED-99-37.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Randall MH. Information Technology Certification Programs and Perceptions of Attitude and Need by High School Principals, Information Technology Teachers, and Information Technology Professionals in Ohio [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2006.

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. With O’Connor Retirement and a New Chief Justice Comes an Awareness of Change. New York Times 2006 Jan 28;A10.

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