How to format your references using the Mycotoxin Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mycotoxin Research. 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

Brydson R (2014) Materials analysis: Good vibrations. Nature 514:177–178

A journal article with 2 authors

Korf H-W, Wicht H (2004) The public cadaver. Nature 428:805

A journal article with 3 authors

Geng WT, Wang J-S, Olson GB (2005) Comment on “Grain boundary decohesion by impurity segregation in a nickel-sulfur system.” Science 309:1677; author reply 1677

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee R, Kermani P, Teng KK, Hempstead BL (2001) Regulation of cell survival by secreted proneurotrophins. Science 294:1945–1948

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khan RM (2013) Problem Solving and Data Analysis using Minitab. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Campora J, Giambastiani G (eds) (2011) Olefin Upgrading Catalysis by Nitrogen-based Metal Complexes II: State of the art and Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Shmaliy Y (2007) LTI Systems in the Frequency Domain (Transform Analysis). In: Shmaliy Y (ed) Continuous-Time Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 239–347

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 Mycotoxin Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) If The US Had Price On Carbon, Would Keystone XL Have Made Sense? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2012) Bus Rapid Transit: Projects Improve Transit Service and Can Contribute to Economic Development. 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

Valenzuela MA (2017) Pitties for the Kiddies: An Animal-Assisted Therapy Program. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hollander S (2009) The Bus-Stop Guessing Game. New York Times CY5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Brydson 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Korf and Wicht 2004; Brydson 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Korf and Wicht 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycotoxin Research
Abbreviation	Mycotoxin Res.
ISSN (print)	0178-7888
ISSN (online)	1867-1632
Scope	Biotechnology Microbiology Toxicology