How to format your references using the Toxicological Sciences citation style

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

Toomre, J. (2002) Solar physics. Order amidst turbulence. Science, 296, 64–65.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhong, W. and Sternberg, P.W. (2006) Genome-wide prediction of C. elegans genetic interactions. Science, 311, 1481–1484.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshida, A. et al. (2013) CSN5 specifically interacts with CDK2 and controls senescence in a cytoplasmic cyclin E-mediated manner. Sci. Rep., 3, 1054.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Gunther, L.K. et al. (2014) Coupling of two non-processive myosin 5c dimers enables processive stepping along actin filaments. Sci. Rep., 4, 4907.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lemma, A. (2008) Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Hui, L.C.K. et al. eds. (2015) Information and Communications Security: 16th International Conference, ICICS 2014, Hong Kong, China, December 16-17, 2014, Revised Selected Papers Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tachikawa, M. et al. (2011) Systemic Route for Retinal Drug Delivery: Role of the Blood-Retinal Barrier. In, Kompella,U.B. and Edelhauser,H.F. (eds), Drug Product Development for the Back of the Eye, AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 85–109.

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 Toxicological Sciences.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2015) Lucky Photographer Captures Epic Battle Between Sea Snake And Stonefish. IFLScience.

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 (1983) Federal Communications Commission Can Further Improve Its Licensing Activities 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

Mannar, N.K. (2017) Hri-Tech Consultants, LLC.

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

Sisario, B. (2017) One Direction Ties A Beatles Record. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Toomre, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Toomre, 2002; Zhong and Sternberg, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Zhong and Sternberg, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gunther et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Toxicological Sciences
Abbreviation	Toxicol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1096-6080
ISSN (online)	1096-0929
Scope	Toxicology