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. Tokura Y. Materials science. Multiferroics as quantum electromagnets. Science. 2006;312:1481–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lee E-J, Groisman EA. Control of a Salmonella virulence locus by an ATP-sensing leader messenger RNA. Nature. 2012;486:271–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schenk P, Matsuyama I, Nimmo F. True polar wander on Europa from global-scale small-circle depressions. Nature. 2008;453:368–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang F, Podell ER, Zaug AJ, Yang Y, Baciu P, Cech TR, et al. The POT1-TPP1 telomere complex is a telomerase processivity factor. Nature. 2007;445:506–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Grinyer A. Palliative and End of Life Care for Children and Young People. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Arnold M, Schiehlen W, editors. Simulation Techniques for Applied Dynamics. Vienna: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bambi C, Dolgov AD. Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Cosmology. In: Dolgov AD, editor. Introduction to Particle Cosmology: The Standard Model of Cosmology and its Open Problems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 71–92.

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. Luntz S. Journal Accepts Paper Reading “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/journal-accepts-paper-reading-get-me-your-fucking-mailing-list/

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. Technology Assessment: Internet of Things: Status and implications of an increasingly connected world. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017 May. Report No.: GAO-17-75.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ahmadi SA. Synergistic interplay between math search and handwritten mathematical notation recognition [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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. Vecsey G. College Athletes Move Concussions Into the Courtroom. New York Times. 2011 Nov 30;B14.

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