How to format your references using the Neurotoxicology citation style

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

Sack, F.D., 2004. Plant sciences. Yoda would be proud: valves for land plants. Science 304, 1461–1462.

A journal article with 2 authors

Linkerhand, M., Gros, C., 2013. Generating functionals for autonomous latching dynamics in attractor relict networks. Sci. Rep. 3, 2042.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bockrath, C., Ballhaus, C., Holzheid, A., 2004. Fractionation of the platinum-group elements during mantle melting. Science 305, 1951–1953.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Z., Zhang, J., Kwong, G., Li, J., Fan, Z., Deng, X., Tang, G., 2013. All-carbon sp-sp2 hybrid structures: geometrical properties, current rectification, and current amplification. Sci. Rep. 3, 2575.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pompian, M.M., 2009. Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Brunner, R.D., 2010. Adaptive Governance and Climate Change. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Kang, Y., 2016. Bilateral FDI Relations Between China and New Zealand: General Trends, Driving Forces and Perceptions, in: Kang, Y. (Ed.), China, New Zealand, and the Complexities of Globalization: Asymmetry, Complementarity, and Competition. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp. 141–168.

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.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Tobacco Kills Two Out of Three Smokers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/tobacco-kills-two-out-three-smokers/ (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, 1974. Partial Report-in-Depth Investigation Into Independent Research and Development and Bid and Proposal Programs (No. B-164912). 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

Alexander, R.T., 2017. Can the analytical hierarchy process model be effectively applied in the prioritization of information assurance defense in-depth measures? - a quantitative study (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Rothenberg, B., 2017. Tricky Draw, and Tricky Hip, Stand in Way of Murray’s Title Defense. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sack, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Linkerhand and Gros, 2013; Sack, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Linkerhand and Gros, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurotoxicology
Abbreviation	Neurotoxicology
ISSN (print)	0161-813X
Scope	General Neuroscience Toxicology