How to format your references using the Forensic Toxicology citation style

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

Dalton R (2001) Deputies caught on the wrong side of the law. Nature 411:876

A journal article with 2 authors

Huang C, Grant PS (2013) One-step spray processing of high power all-solid-state supercapacitors. Sci Rep 3:2393

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohde T, Yaginuma T, Niimi T (2013) Insect morphological diversification through the modification of wing serial homologs. Science 340:495–498

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Choi DH, Wang Q, Azuma Y, et al (2013) Fabrication and characterization of fully flattened carbon nanotubes: a new graphene nanoribbon analogue. Sci Rep 3:1617

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thompson AK (2014) Fruit and Vegetables. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wang G-Y, Peters JF, Skowron A, Yao Y (2006) Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology: First International Conference, RSKT 2006, Chongquing, China, July 24-26, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fernández-Caballero A, Sokolova MV (2010) Computational Agents in Complex Decision Support Systems. In: Jain LC, Lim CP (eds) Handbook on Decision Making: Vol 1: Techniques and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 117–142

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 Forensic Toxicology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Watch China’s lunar rover landing! In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-china’s-lunar-rover-landing/. 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 (1991) Earth Observing System: Information on NASA’s Selection of Data Centers. 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

Davis M (2015) Opprobrious Identities: The Enslaving Effect of Black Respectability on Queer Black Men. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

St. John Kelly E (2013) Built Inside a Church, A Log Cabin Isn’t Near Its End. Scout’s Honor. New York Times A20

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	Forensic Toxicology
Abbreviation	Forensic Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	1860-8965
ISSN (online)	1860-8973
Scope	Biochemistry, medical Pathology and Forensic Medicine Toxicology