How to format your references using the Archives of Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Ackert RP Jr (2003) Glaciology. An ice sheet remembers. Science 299:57–58
A journal article with 2 authors
Hickman AJ, Sanford MS (2012) High-valent organometallic copper and palladium in catalysis. Nature 484:177–185
A journal article with 3 authors
Gerber LR, Hyrenbach KD, Zacharias MA (2005) Ecology. Do the largest protected areas conserve whales or whalers? Science 307:525–526
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Rust MJ, Markson JS, Lane WS, et al (2007) Ordered phosphorylation governs oscillation of a three-protein circadian clock. Science 318:809–812

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Pinoli J-C (2014) Mathematical Foundations of Image Processing and Analysis 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
Cowling MG (ed) (2007) Vascular Interventional Radiology: Angioplasty, Stenting, Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
Nguyen DC, Perini A, Tonella P (2008) A Goal-Oriented Software Testing Methodology. In: Luck M, Padgham L (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII: 8th International Workshop, AOSE 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 58–72

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 Archives of Toxicology.

Blog post
Luntz S (2015) Drug Treats Protein That May Cause Alzheimer’s Disease. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/drug-treats-protein-may-cause-alzheimers-disease/. Accessed 30 Oct 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
Government Accountability Office (1996) FCC: Access to Telecommunications Equipment and Services by Persons With Disabilities. 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
Ge Z (2009) Link performance analysis of disaster monitoring system. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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
Greenhouse L (2006) Treaty Doesn’t Give Foreign Defendants Special Status in U.S. Courts, Justices Rule. New York Times A22

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ackert 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ackert 2003; Hickman and Sanford 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Hickman and Sanford 2012)
  • Three or more authors: (Rust et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleArchives of Toxicology
AbbreviationArch. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)0340-5761
ISSN (online)1432-0738
ScopeHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
General Medicine
Toxicology

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