How to format your references using the Neurotoxicology and Teratology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Graeber, M.B., 2010. Changing face of microglia. Science 330, 783–788.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saviane, C., Silver, R.A., 2006. Fast vesicle reloading and a large pool sustain high bandwidth transmission at a central synapse. Nature 439, 983–987.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levis, R.J., Menkir, G.M., Rabitz, H., 2001. Selective bond dissociation and rearrangement with optimally tailored, strong-field laser pulses. Science 292, 709–713.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Steele, G.A., Hüttel, A.K., Witkamp, B., Poot, M., Meerwaldt, H.B., Kouwenhoven, L.P., van der Zant, H.S.J., 2009. Strong coupling between single-electron tunneling and nanomechanical motion. Science 325, 1103–1107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

PKF International Ltd, 2017. Wiley IFRS 2017 Interpretation and Application of IFRS Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Beck, M., 2015. Computing the Continuous Discretely: Integer-Point Enumeration in Polyhedra, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Diakite, I., Chen-Charpentier, B.M., 2015. Effects of a Discrete Time Delay on an HIV Pandemic, in: Tost, G.O., Vasilieva, O. (Eds.), Analysis, Modelling, Optimization, and Numerical Techniques: ICAMI, San Andres Island, Colombia, November 2013, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 57–73.

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 Neurotoxicology and Teratology.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Ants Use Scorched Earth Tactics Against Spiders [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ants-use-scorched-earth-tactics-against-spiders/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Biotechnology: Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina (No. T-RCED/NSIAD-00-228). 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

Frost, D.C., 2009. Quantitative correlational study of communication satisfaction related to organizational proximity and face-to-face communication (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Baker, L., 2006. Bridge Plan Rattles Seattle Enclave. New York Times 1111.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graeber, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Graeber, 2010; Saviane and Silver, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Saviane and Silver, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Steele et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurotoxicology and Teratology
Abbreviation	Neurotoxicol. Teratol.
ISSN (print)	0892-0362
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience Toxicology