How to format your references using the Particle and Fibre Toxicology citation style

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

1. Ijspeert AJ. Biorobotics: using robots to emulate and investigate agile locomotion. Science. 2014;346:196–203.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tissenbaum HA, Guarente L. Increased dosage of a sir-2 gene extends lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2001;410:227–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McCarty KF, Nobel JA, Bartelt NC. Vacancies in solids and the stability of surface morphology. Nature. 2001;412:622–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Murtra P, Sheasby AM, Hunt SP, De Felipe C. Rewarding effects of opiates are absent in mice lacking the receptor for substance P. Nature. 2000;405:180–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Martindale W. Global Food Security and Supply. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Minker W. Incorporating Knowledge Sources into Statistical Speech Recognition. Nakamura S, Markov K, Sakti S, editors. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Naglik JR, Hube B. Secreted Candida Proteins: Pathogenicity and Host Immunity. In: Ashbee R, Bignell EM, editors. Pathogenic Yeasts. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 97–120.

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 Particle and Fibre Toxicology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. NASA Reveals Latest Warp-Drive Ship Designs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-reveals-latest-warp-drive-ship-designs/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Use of the Public Law 94-142 Set-Aside Shows Both the Flexibility Intended by the Law and the Need for Improved Reporting. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Jan. Report No.: PEMD-85-5.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Herrera K. Improved transportation for older adult volunteers: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

1. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Orthodox Church Berates Vatican. New York Times. 2002 Aug 1;A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Particle and Fibre Toxicology
Abbreviation	Part. Fibre Toxicol.
ISSN (online)	1743-8977
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis General Medicine Toxicology