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

Thamdrup B (2007) Geochemistry. New players in an ancient cycle. Science 317:1508–1509

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee WY, Sine SM (2005) Principal pathway coupling agonist binding to channel gating in nicotinic receptors. Nature 438:243–247

A journal article with 3 authors

Millonig JH, Millen KJ, Hatten ME (2000) The mouse Dreher gene Lmx1a controls formation of the roof plate in the vertebrate CNS. Nature 403:764–769

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chesley SR, Ostro SJ, Vokrouhlicky D, et al (2003) Direct detection of the Yarkovsky effect by radar ranging to asteroid 6489 Golevka. Science 302:1739–1742

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tue NV, Reichel M, Fischer M (2016) Berechnung und Bemessung von Betonbrücken. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

An edited book

Hörner W, Döbert H, Kopp BV, Mitter W (eds) (2007) The Education Systems of Europe. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Ong HL, de Souza LB, Ambudkar IS (2016) Role of TRPC Channels in Store-Operated Calcium Entry. In: Rosado JA (ed) Calcium Entry Pathways in Non-excitable Cells. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 87–109

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) Rewilding Isn’t About Nostalgia – Exciting New Worlds Are Possible. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rewilding-isn-t-about-nostalgia-exciting-new-worlds-are-possible/. 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 (1992) NASA Issues. 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

Cheung M (2010) An integrated change model in project management. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Cooper M, Walsh MW (2011) Risks Seen In Perry Plan For Switch To Pensions. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thamdrup 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Lee and Sine 2005; Thamdrup 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Sine 2005)
Three or more authors: (Chesley 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

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