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

Ibba M. Protein synthesis. Discriminating right from wrong. Science 2001 Oct 5;294(5540):70–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Du H, Rosbash M. The U1 snRNP protein U1C recognizes the 5’ splice site in the absence of base pairing. Nature 2002 Sep 5;419(6902):86–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Naeem S, Hahn DR, Schuurman G. Producer-decomposer co-dependency influences biodiversity effects. Nature 2000 Feb 17;403(6771):762–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bashir T, Dorrello NV, Amador V, Guardavaccaro D, Pagano M. Control of the SCF(Skp2-Cks1) ubiquitin ligase by the APC/C(Cdh1) ubiquitin ligase. Nature 2004 Mar 11;428(6979):190–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martin-Flatin J-P. Web-Based Management of IP Networks and Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2002.

An edited book

Cuyt A. Handbook of Continued Fractions for Special Functions. Petersen VB, Verdonk B, Waadeland H, Jones WB, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen H, Srinivasan C, Huang T-T. Superoxide Dismutase Family of Enzymes in Brain Neurogenesis and Radioprotection. In: Batinić-Haberle I, Rebouças JS, Spasojević I, editors. Redox-Active Therapeutics Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 81–102.

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

Andrews R. Ancient Pterosaur Used Four Huge Fangs To Snack On Ancient Crocodiles [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-pterosaur-used-four-huge-fangs-snack-ancient-crocodiles/

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. Methodology Transfer Paper 3. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Jun. Report No.: 118985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kay K. A support group for older adult males struggling with depression: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Atkinson S, Davey M. Manslaughter Is Charge for 5 In Flint Crisis. New York Times 2017 Jun 14;A1.

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