How to format your references using the Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 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
Diamond, J., 2001. Unwritten knowledge. Nature 410, 521.
A journal article with 2 authors
Burton, D.R., Dwek, R.A., 2006. Immunology. Sugar determines antibody activity. Science 313, 627–628.
A journal article with 3 authors
Bailes, F., Dean, R.T., Pearce, M.T., 2013. Music cognition as mental time travel. Sci. Rep. 3, 2690.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Subramani, A., Alsidawi, S., Jagannathan, S., Sumita, K., Sasaki, A.T., Aronow, B., Warnick, R.E., Lawler, S., Driscoll, J.J., 2013. The brain microenvironment negatively regulates miRNA-768-3p to promote K-ras expression and lung cancer metastasis. Sci. Rep. 3, 2392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Crichton, R.R., Ward, R.J., 2006. Metal-based Neurodegeneration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
Gosper, M., Ifenthaler, D. (Eds.), 2014. Curriculum Models for the 21st Century: Using Learning Technologies in Higher Education. Springer, New York, NY.
A chapter in an edited book
Bruce, N., Kim, T.-Y., Lee, H.J., 2012. Data Link Layer’ Security Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks, in: Kim, T.-H., Ko, D.-S., Vasilakos, T., Stoica, A., Abawajy, J. (Eds.), Computer Applications for Communication, Networking, and Digital Contents: International Conferences, FGCN and DCA 2012, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2012, Gangneug, Korea, December 16-19, 2012. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–32.

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 Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology.

Blog post
Hamilton, K., 2017. How Breast Milk Could Help Prevent The Antibiotic Apocalypse [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Reserve Is Acting to Ensure Financial Institutions Are Fixing Systems, But Challenges Remain (No. AIMD-98-248). 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
Cox, E.T., 2012. Prenatal cocaine: Effects on neonatal vocalizations, cue-induced maternal response, and brain development (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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
Friedman, L., Schwartz, J., 2017. Warm Gulf Fuels the Rain and Gives It Nowhere to Go. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Diamond, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Burton and Dwek, 2006; Diamond, 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Burton and Dwek, 2006)
  • Three or more authors: (Subramani et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal titleEnvironmental Toxicology and Pharmacology
AbbreviationEnviron. Toxicol. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)1382-6689
ScopeHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
General Medicine
Pharmacology
Toxicology

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