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. Webb B. Robots in invertebrate neuroscience. Nature. 2002;417:359–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Keefer DK, Larsen MC. Geology. Assessing landslide hazards. Science. 2007;316:1136–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Raty J-Y, Schwegler E, Bonev SA. Electronic and structural transitions in dense liquid sodium. Nature. 2007;449:448–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Oldfield TEE, Smith RJ, Harrop SR, Leader-Williams N. Field sports and conservation in the United Kingdom. Nature. 2003;423:531–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Perrin V. MRI Techniques. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Zhao M, Sha J, editors. Communications and Information Processing: International Conference, ICCIP 2012 Aveiro, Portugal, March 7-11, 2012 Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Semisalova AS, Orlov A, Smekhova A, Gan’shina E, Perov N, Anwand W, et al. Above Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in Dilute Magnetic Oxide Semiconductors. In: Zhukov A, editor. Novel Functional Magnetic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 187–219.

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. Luntz S. Ice Ages Don’t All End Alike [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/all-ice-ages-do-not-end-alike/

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. Health Information Technology: HHS Is Pursuing Efforts to Advance Nationwide Implementation, but Has Not Yet Completed a National Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Feb. Report No.: GAO-08-499T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wosu UL. Geochemical Analysis of Late Pleistocene Sediments from Fossil Lake, Northern Lake County, Oregon [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Sisario B. Lana Del Rey Tops Delayed Billboard Chart. New York Times. 2017 Aug 2;C3.

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