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

Graham-Rowe D (2011) Overview: Multiple lines of attack. Nature 480:S34-5

A journal article with 2 authors

Junttila MR, de Sauvage FJ (2013) Influence of tumour micro-environment heterogeneity on therapeutic response. Nature 501:346–354

A journal article with 3 authors

Runnels LW, Yue L, Clapham DE (2001) TRP-PLIK, a bifunctional protein with kinase and ion channel activities. Science 291:1043–1047

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kodama S, Kühtreiber W, Fujimura S, et al (2003) Islet regeneration during the reversal of autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice. Science 302:1223–1227

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dodson B, Hammett PC, Klerx R (2014) Probabilistic Design for Optimization and Robustness for Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cheyne C, Worrall J (eds) (2006) Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Zhong Y (2010) Gastric Cancer. In: Alaoui-Jamali M (ed) Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Cancer: Integrative Approaches and Discovery of Conventional Drugs. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 105–133

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 (2015) How Big Are The Largest Marine Animals? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/here-are-true-sizes-large-marine-species/. 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 (1989) Aviation Weather: FAA Needs to Resolve Questions Involving the Use of New Radars. 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

Brady DC (2008) The transforming Rho family GTPase, Wrch -1, regulates epithelial cell morphogenesis through modulating cell junctions and actin cytoskeletal dynamics. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Williams J (2017) Hey, Modernity, They’re Just Not Into You. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graham-Rowe 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Graham-Rowe 2011; Junttila and de Sauvage 2013).

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

Two authors: (Junttila and de Sauvage 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kodama et al. 2003)

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