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

Boetius A (2005) Ocean science. Lost City life. Science 307:1420–1422

A journal article with 2 authors

Corma A, Serna P (2006) Chemoselective hydrogenation of nitro compounds with supported gold catalysts. Science 313:332–334

A journal article with 3 authors

Sadqi M, Fushman D, Muñoz V (2006) Atom-by-atom analysis of global downhill protein folding. Nature 442:317–321

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Smit RHM, Noat Y, Untiedt C, et al (2002) Measurement of the conductance of a hydrogen molecule. Nature 419:906–909

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ushakov I (2012) Probabilistic Reliability Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lobo FG, Lima CF, Michalewicz Z (eds) (2007) Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Angelov S, Kunal K, McGregor A (2008) Sorting and Selection with Random Costs. In: Laber ES, Bornstein C, Nogueira LT, Faria L (eds) LATIN 2008: Theoretical Informatics: 8th Latin American Symposium, Búzios, Brazil, April 7-11, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 48–59

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

Carpineti A (2016) Bisexual Bird Commune Discovered In Central America. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bisexual-bird-commune-discovered-central-america/. 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 (2000) Charter Schools: Limited Access to Facility Financing. 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

Knudsen E (2014) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder empowerment program: A grant project. 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

Kelly C (2006) Shore Enclave Feels The Breezes of Change. New York Times F6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boetius 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Boetius 2005; Corma and Serna 2006).

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

Two authors: (Corma and Serna 2006)
Three or more authors: (Smit et al. 2002)

About the journal

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

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