How to format your references using the Reproductive Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reproductive 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]

T.H. Torsvik, Geology. The Rodinia jigsaw puzzle, Science 300 (2003) 1379–1381.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Kawasaki, K. Taira, Hes1 is a target of microRNA-23 during retinoic-acid-induced neuronal differentiation of NT2 cells, Nature 423 (2003) 838–842.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Jiang, S. Kirmizialtin, I.C. Sanchez, Dynamic void distribution in myoglobin and five mutants, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4011.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.R. Lipford, G.T. Smith, Y. Chi, R.J. Deshaies, A putative stimulatory role for activator turnover in gene expression, Nature 438 (2005) 113–116.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Jelaska, Gears and Gear Drives, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

C.-M. Kyung, ed., Theory and Applications of Smart Cameras, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Casale, O. Amft, Inferring Model Structures from Inertial Sensor Data in Distributed Activity Recognition, in: J.C. Augusto, R. Wichert, R. Collier, D. Keyson, A.A. Salah, A.-H. Tan (Eds.), Ambient Intelligence: 4th International Joint Conference, AmI 2013, Dublin, Ireland, December 3-5, 2013. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2013: pp. 62–77.

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 Reproductive Toxicology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Curious Case Of A Man Who Thought His Reflection Was A Stranger, IFLScience (2015).

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, Investing in the Very Young, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. Bai, Cognitive processes of prioritization in multitasking, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2017.

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]

M. Cooper, The Storming of Mount Salzburg, New York Times (2017) AR8.

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	Reproductive Toxicology
Abbreviation	Reprod. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	0890-6238
Scope	Toxicology