How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

M. Cuk, Excitation of lunar eccentricity by planetary resonances, Science 318 (2007) 244.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.J.A. Watson, J.M.J. Williams, Chemistry. The give and take of alcohol activation, Science 329 (2010) 635–636.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Tahir, K. Sabeeh, U. Schwingenschlögl, Quantum capacitance of an ultrathin topological insulator film in a magnetic field, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1261.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.L. Pruneda-Paz, G. Breton, A. Para, S.A. Kay, A functional genomics approach reveals CHE as a component of the Arabidopsis circadian clock, Science 323 (2009) 1481–1485.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Nguyen, Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

V. Erdmann, J. Barciszewski, J. Brosius, eds., RNA Towards Medicine, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. D’amico, Disease and the Concept of Supervenience, in: H. Kincaid, J. McKitrick (Eds.), Establishing Medical Reality: Essays In The Metaphysics And Epistemology Of Biomedical Science, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 35–45.

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 Current Opinion in Toxicology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Tattoo-like sensor actively monitors patient, IFLScience (2013).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, UMTA Project Oversight and Mass Transit Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Robles, Academic achievement among foster care children with a disability: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

[1]

J.B. Stewart, Feel Optimistic About the Booming Market? Then Read at Your Own Risk, New York Times (2017) B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Current Opinion in Toxicology
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	2468-2020
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