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. Seiff, A. (2000) Dynamics of Jupiter’s atmosphere. Nature, 403, 603, 605.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ausländer, S. and Fussenegger, M. (2014) Synthetic biology: Toehold gene switches make big footprints. Nature, 516, 333–334.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Fried, S.D., Bagchi, S. and Boxer, S.G. (2014) Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346, 1510–1514.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Khan, R.S., Martinez, M.D., Sy, J.C., Pendergrass, K.D., Che, P.-L., Brown, M.E., et al. (2014) Targeting extracellular DNA to deliver IGF-1 to the injured heart. Scientific reports, 4, 4257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bhaskar, K. and Varadan Retd., T.K. (2014) Plates. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

1. Thakur, M.K. and Rattan, S.I.S. (eds) (2012) Brain Aging and Therapeutic Interventions. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ju, H., Yang, X., Dou, H. and Song, J. (2014) Variable Precision Multigranulation Rough Set and Attributes Reduction. In Peters, J.F., Skowron, A., Li, T., Yang, Y., Yao, J., Nguyen, H.S. (eds), Transactions on Rough Sets XVIII. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 52–68.

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) Female Stick Insect Produces Anti-Aphrodisiac to Repel Males. IFLScience, February 13, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/female-walking-stick-produces-anti-aphrodisiac-repel-males/ (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 (2007) Space Based Infrared System High Program and its Alternative. 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. Corral, D.C. (2010) A grant proposal: Parent and adolescent support group. 2010.

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. St. John Kelly, E. (1999) F.Y.I. New York Times, January 17, 1999.

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

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