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. Sweatt JD. Neuroscience. Epigenetics and cognitive aging. Science. 2010;328:701–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Georgianna DR, Mayfield SP. Exploiting diversity and synthetic biology for the production of algal biofuels. Nature. 2012;488:329–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McSween HY Jr, Taylor GJ, Wyatt MB. Elemental composition of the Martian crust. Science. 2009;324:736–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ura Y, Beierle JM, Leman LJ, Orgel LE, Ghadiri MR. Self-assembling sequence-adaptive peptide nucleic acids. Science. 2009;325:73–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Scott DM. World Wide Rave. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Aher M, Hole D, Jeřábek E, Kupke C, editors. Logic, Language, and Computation: 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2013, Gudauri, Georgia, September 23-27, 2013. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Anderson IM. Principles of therapy. In: Anderson IM, editor. Handbook of Depression. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.; 2009. p. 27–43.

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. What Are The Chances That Climate Change Is “Natural”? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Air Traffic Control: FAA Can Better Forecast and Prevent Equipment Failures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Aug. Report No.: RCED-91-179.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cole Jackson M. National school reform: the benefits of civility and ethics instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Greenhouse L. Court Upholds Arizona Limits Imposed on Insanity Defense. New York Times. 2006 Jun 30;A19.

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