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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medical 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. Zaumseil J. Applied physics. Electronic control of circularly polarized light emission. Science. 2014;344:702–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ridderinkhof KR, van den Wildenberg WPM. Neuroscience. Adaptive coding. Science. 2005;307:1059–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Moynier F, Yin Q-Z, Schauble E. Isotopic evidence of Cr partitioning into Earth’s core. Science. 2011;331:1417–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zoorob ME, Charlton MD, Parker GJ, Baumberg JJ, Netti MC. Complete photonic bandgaps in 12-fold symmetric quasicrystals. Nature. 2000;404:740–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cooper N, Forrest K, Cramp P. Essential Guide to Acute Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

1. Witt C, editor. Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fotakis D. A Primal-Dual Algorithm for Online Non-uniform Facility Location. In: Bozanis P, Houstis EN, editors. Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 47–56.

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 Medical Toxicology.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. What Makes An Animal Clever? Research Shows Intelligence Is not Just About Using Tools [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-makes-an-animal-clever-research-shows-intelligence-is-not-just-about-using-tools/

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. Vehicle Safety: Opportunities Exist to Enhance NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Apr. Report No.: GAO-05-370.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Liu CC. Charles T. Griffes’s “Roman Sketches”: A performer’s guide [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Baker L. A Canadian Condo Boom. New York Times. 2007 Oct 21;1111.

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	Journal of Medical Toxicology
Abbreviation	J. Med. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	1556-9039
ISSN (online)	1937-6995
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Toxicology