How to format your references using the Safety and Health at Work citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Safety and Health at Work. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

Padma TV. Rivalry and red tape. Nature 2005;436:490–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Robinson JP, Roederer M. HISTORY OF SCIENCE. Flow cytometry strikes gold. Science 2015;350:739–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ginsburg GS, Angrist M, Cook-Deegan R. Public health. Genomics and medicine at a crossroads in Chernobyl. Science 2006;314:62–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yamaguchi A, Clayton RN, Mayeda TK, Ebihara M, Oura Y, Miura YN, et al. A new source of basaltic meteorites inferred from Northwest Africa 011. Science 2002;296:334–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Candy JV. Model-Based Signal Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Nof SY, editor. Springer Handbook of Automation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chao N-H, Liao IC. Sustainable Approaches for Aquaculture Development: Looking Ahead Through Lessons in the Past. In: Bert TM, editor. Ecological and Genetic Implications of Aquaculture Activities, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 73–82.

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 Safety and Health at Work.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Hidden Layers Have Been Found In The Tomb Of Jesus Christ. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. The Stafford Student Loan Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pan S. Cybersecurity testing and intrusion detection for cyber-physical power systems. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 2014.

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

[1]

Kelly M. Clinton’s Chief of Staff Ponders Undefined Post. New York Times 1992:B6.

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	Safety and Health at Work
Abbreviation	Saf. Health Work
ISSN (print)	2093-7911
Scope	Chemical Health and Safety Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety Research