How to format your references using the Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology. 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

Power PP. 2010. Main-group elements as transition metals. Nature. 463(7278):171–77

A journal article with 2 authors

Baldwin AJ, Kay LE. 2012. Structural biology: Dynamic binding. Nature. 488(7410):165–66

A journal article with 3 authors

Willis GL, Moore C, Armstrong SM. 2014. Parkinson’s disease, lights and melanocytes: looking beyond the retina. Sci. Rep. 4:3921

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lei D, Ma J, Du X, Shen G, Jin X, Gong Q. 2014. Microstructural abnormalities in the combined and inattentive subtypes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a diffusion tensor imaging study. Sci. Rep. 4:6875

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corley RHV, Tinker PB. 2015. The Oil Palm. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Habgood J. 2006. The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners. Berkeley, CA: Apress. XXI, 311 p. 151 illus., 150 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Leino OT. 2012. Untangling Gameplay: An Account of Experience, Activity and Materiality Within Computer Game Play. In The Philosophy of Computer Games, ed JR Sageng, H Fossheim, T Mandt Larsen, pp. 57–75. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2017. Major “Superbug” Lineage First Evolved 450 Million Years Ago. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2017. Tribal Transportation: Better Data Could Improve Road Management and Inform Indian Student Attendance Strategies. GAO-17-423, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Little K. 2013. Using Ancient and Modern Fishes to Track Environmental Change in the Illinois River. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Southern Illinois University

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

Barron J. 2017. A Solution to Subway Delays Caused by Crowding? More Standing Room. New York Times, Oct. 17, p. A22

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	0362-1642
ISSN (online)	1545-4304
Scope	Pharmacology Toxicology