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 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

[1]

Reines AE. Astrophysics: Giant black hole in a stripped galaxy. Nature 2014;513:322–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lee SS-J, Mudaliar A. Medicine. Racing forward: the Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act. Science 2009;323:342.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zimmet P, Alberti KG, Shaw J. Global and societal implications of the diabetes epidemic. Nature 2001;414:782–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mischenko AS, Zhang Q, Scott JF, Whatmore RW, Mathur ND. Giant electrocaloric effect in thin-film PbZr(0.95)Ti(0.05)O3. Science 2006;311:1270–1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Marx FG, Lambert O, Uhen MD. Cetacean Paleobiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Mitchell RC, Moore SA, editors. Planetary Praxis & Pedagogy: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Sustainability. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Weiss G, Pomberger G, Beer W, Buchgeher G, Dorninger B, Pichler J, et al. Software Engineering – Processes and Tools. In: Buchberger B, Affenzeller M, Ferscha A, Haller M, Jebelean T, Klement EP, et al., editors. Hagenberg Research, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 157–235.

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]

Hale T. Why Is The U.K.’s Ministry Of Defence Spraying Spider Webs With Ebola And The Plague? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/uks-ministry-defence-are-spraying-spider-webs-ebola-and-plauge/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Potential for Cost Reduction in Providing Message Refile Services Through DOD Telecommunications Centers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nasrollahzadeh Y. Support group for caregivers of older adults affected by dementia: A grant proposal project. Doctoral dissertation. 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

[1]

Hollander S. Still a Fan Favorite. New York Times 2000: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	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