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

Archibald JM (2015) Evolution: Gene transfer in complex cells. Nature 524:423–424

A journal article with 2 authors

Kent DV, Tauxe L (2005) Corrected Late Triassic latitudes for continents adjacent to the North Atlantic. Science 307:240–244

A journal article with 3 authors

Moyen J-F, Stevens G, Kisters A (2006) Record of mid-Archaean subduction from metamorphism in the Barberton terrain, South Africa. Nature 442:559–562

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Guo X-G, Ding J, Xu H, et al (2014) Comprehensive assessment of the association of WNK4 polymorphisms with hypertension: evidence from a meta-analysis. Sci Rep 4:6507

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donald H, Robert D. G (2006) Longitudinal Data Analysis: Hedeker/Longitudinal. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wenclawiak BW, Koch M, Hadjicostas E (eds) (2010) Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry: Training and Teaching. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Medeiros MFT (2016) Historical Ethnobiology. In: Albuquerque UP, Nóbrega Alves RR (eds) Introduction to Ethnobiology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 19–24

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) New Horizons Begins Life After Pluto By Studying Distant Solar System Object. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-begins-life-after-pluto/. 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 (1995) School Facilities: Condition of America’s Schools. 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

Fay C (2017) Aposematic Variation and the Evolution of Warning Coloration in Mammals. 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

Shpigel B (2016) Paralympics; Iranian Cyclist Dies After Crash at Rio Games. New York Times SP2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Archibald 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kent and Tauxe 2005; Archibald 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kent and Tauxe 2005)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al. 2014)

About the journal

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