How to format your references using the Food and Chemical Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food and Chemical 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

Garnero, E.J., 2004. Geophysics. A new paradigm for Earth’s core-mantle boundary. Science 304, 834–836.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williamson, R., Duncan, R., 2002. DNA testing for all. Nature 418, 585–586.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfingsten, J.S., Costantino, D.A., Kieft, J.S., 2006. Structural basis for ribosome recruitment and manipulation by a viral IRES RNA. Science 314, 1450–1454.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van Riel, D., Munster, V.J., de Wit, E., Rimmelzwaan, G.F., Fouchier, R.A.M., Osterhaus, A.D.M.E., Kuiken, T., 2006. H5N1 Virus Attachment to Lower Respiratory Tract. Science 312, 399.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Battu, D., 2014. New Telecom Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Spokoiny, V., 2015. Basics of Modern Mathematical Statistics, Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sillesen, H., 2013. Vascular Hemodynamics, in: AbuRahma, A.F., Bandyk, D.F. (Eds.), Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy. Springer, London, pp. 45–53.

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 Food and Chemical Toxicology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Clouds On Venus Could Tell Us What The Surface Looks Like [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/clouds-on-venus-could-tell-us-what-the-surface-looks-like/ (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, 1981. Automatic Data Processing Problems at the Social Security Administration (No. 118089). 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

Fisher, J.D., 2015. A profile of the chief student affairs officers of the California State University system (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Barry, E., 2017. Fraud Culture Rises in India, Aiming at U.S. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garnero, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Garnero, 2004; Williamson and Duncan, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Williamson and Duncan, 2002)
Three or more authors: (van Riel et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food and Chemical Toxicology
Abbreviation	Food Chem. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	0278-6915
Scope	Food Science General Medicine Toxicology