How to format your references using the Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology. 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

Stevenson DJ. Planetary science. Jupiter and its moons. Science. 2001 Oct 5;294(5540):71–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ma J, Lindquist S. Conversion of PrP to a self-perpetuating PrPSc-like conformation in the cytosol. Science. 2002 Nov 29;298(5599):1785–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whiten A, Horner V, de Waal FBM. Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees. Nature. 2005 Sep 29;437(7059):737–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Erdélyi Z, Sladecek M, Stadler LM, Zizak I, Langer GA, Kis-Varga M, et al. Transient interface sharpening in miscible alloys. Science. 2004 Dec 10;306(5703):1913–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Segal HP. Utopias. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

Zhong Z, editor. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012: Volume 1. London: Springer; 2013. XXV, 910 p. 262 illus., 36 illus. in color. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; vol. 216).

A chapter in an edited book

von Weizsäcker EU. Contagious Knowledge: Contagion as a Quality Criterion for Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science. In: von Weizsäcker EU, editor. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker: A Pioneer on Environmental, Climate and Energy Policies. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 34–51. (SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice).

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 Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014. Has The Hole in Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Theory Been Plugged?

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. Best Practices: Elements Critical to Successfully Reducing Unneeded RDT&E Infrastructure. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jan. Report No.: NSIAD/RCED-98-23.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ramotar-John BP. Supplementing soybean meal with Camelina (Camelina sativa) in tilapia diets and optimizing commercial tilapia diets for use in intensive systems in the Western region of the United States [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2014.

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

Martin J, Burns A. G.O.P. Candidates Aiming to Escape Trump’s Shadow. New York Times. 2016 Aug 6;A1.

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 Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology
ISSN (print)	0731-8898
ISSN (online)	2162-6537
Scope