How to format your references using the Journal of Analytical Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Analytical 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. Wray, G.A. (2011) Evolution. CNCing is believing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333, 946–947.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. van Dokkum, P.G. and Conroy, C. (2010) A substantial population of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies. Nature, 468, 940–942.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Baron-Cohen, S., Knickmeyer, R.C. and Belmonte, M.K. (2005) Sex differences in the brain: implications for explaining autism. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310, 819–823.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mandal, S.M., Migliolo, L., Silva, O.N., Fensterseifer, I.C.M., Faria-Junior, C., Dias, S.C., et al. (2014) Controlling resistant bacteria with a novel class of β-lactamase inhibitor peptides: from rational design to in vivo analyses. Scientific reports, 4, 6015.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Robyns, B., François, B., Delille, G. and Saudemont, C. (2015) Energy Storage in Electric Power Grids. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

1. Basu, D. (2016) Structural Revolution in International Business Architecture: Political Economy: Volume 2. Miroshnik, V. (ed), Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Popescu-Zeletin, R., Radusch, I. and Rigani, M.A. (2010) Routing. In Radusch, I., Rigani, M.A. (eds), Vehicular-2-X Communication: State-of-the-Art and Research in Mobile Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–88.

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 Journal of Analytical Toxicology.

Blog post

1. Fang, J. (2015) Researchers Create ‘General Intelligence’ Test For Wild Birds. IFLScience, September 21, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-create-general-intelligence-test-wild-birds/ (30 October 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

1. Government Accountability Office (2003) Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues for Consideration in Developing an Intercity Passenger Rail Policy. 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

1. Dixon, L.K. (2009) Tracing anthropogenic wastes: Detection of fluorescent optical brighteners in a gradient of natural organic matter fluorescence. 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. Boot, M. (2016) How the ‘Stupid Party’ Created Trump. New York Times, July 31, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Journal of Analytical Toxicology
Abbreviation	J. Anal. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	0146-4760
ISSN (online)	1945-2403
Scope	Chemical Health and Safety Analytical Chemistry Environmental Chemistry Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Toxicology