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:

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

Schreiber MR (2013) Astronomy. One good measure. Science 340:932–933

A journal article with 2 authors

Padhi A, Ma L (2014) Genetic and epidemiological insights into the emergence of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) across Asia and Africa. Sci Rep 4:7040

A journal article with 3 authors

Rakitzis TP, van den Brom AJ, Janssen MHM (2004) Directional dynamics in the photodissociation of oriented molecules. Science 303:1852–1854

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pillai RS, Bhattacharyya SN, Artus CG, et al (2005) Inhibition of translational initiation by Let-7 MicroRNA in human cells. Science 309:1573–1576

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morales G, Kacher C (2015) Short Selling with the O’Neil Disciples. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bernard D, Buffière J-Y, Pollock T, et al (eds) (2016) Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on 3D Materials Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hüttmann G, Lankenau E (2008) Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) – An Emerging Technology for Three-Dimensional Imaging of Biological Tissues. In: Artmann GM, Chien S (eds) Bioengineering in Cell and Tissue Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 85–102

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

Andrew E (2014) Scientists Generate Sperm Precursors From Skin Cells Of Infertile Men. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-generate-sperm-precursors-skin-cells-infertile-men/. 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 (2005) Vocational Rehabilitation: Better Measures and Monitoring Could Improve the Performance of the VR Program. 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

Gilbert C (2017) Factors Associated With Dietetic Interns’ Knowledge of Sodium and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 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

Vecsey G (2011) Watching Argentina Up Close, Hoping to Learn Something. New York Times D8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schreiber 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Schreiber 2013; Padhi and Ma 2014).

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

Two authors: (Padhi and Ma 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pillai et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Toxicology
Abbreviation	Arch. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	0340-5761
ISSN (online)	1432-0738
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis General Medicine Toxicology