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

Marx V. Epigenetics: Reading the second genomic code. Nature 2012 Nov 1;491(7422):143–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thomas SG, Franklin-Tong VE. Self-incompatibility triggers programmed cell death in Papaver pollen. Nature 2004 May 20;429(6989):305–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ledderose J, Dieter S, Schwarz MK. Maturation of postnatally generated olfactory bulb granule cells depends on functional γ-protocadherin expression. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:1514.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shu D-G, Morris SC, Han J, Zhang Z-F, Liu J-N. Ancestral echinoderms from the Chengjiang deposits of China. Nature 2004 Jul 22;430(6998):422–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paladino B. Corporate Performance Management Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Hall BL, Clover DE, Crowther J, Scandrett E, editors. Learnning and Educationfor a Bettter World: The Role of Social Movements. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Sheng Y, Welling WS, Zhu MM. GPU-Accelerated Computing with Gibbs Sampler for the 2PNO IRT Model. In: van der Ark LA, Bolt DM, Wang W-C, Douglas JA, Chow S-M, editors. Quantitative Psychology Research: The 79th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 2014 Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 59–73.

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. Kenya Set To Burn World’s Largest Ever Ivory Stockpile [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/kenya-set-burn-worlds-largest-ever-ivory-stockpile/

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. International Broadcasting: Construction of U.S. Radio Relay Station in Israel. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-90-123FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ledgister NL. A study of transformational leadership and job satisfaction among leaders in Jamaica Baptist Union churches [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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

Himelstein L. Hotel Buffets, a Culprit of Waste, Get Downsized. New York Times 2017 Sep 8;D4.

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