How to format your references using the Toxicologie Analytique et Clinique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Toxicologie Analytique et Clinique. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Axtell RL. Zipf distribution of U.S. firm sizes. Science 2001;293:1818–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wei S, Li X. Differential effects of propranolol on conditioned hyperactivity and locomotor sensitization induced by morphine in rats. Sci Rep 2014;4:3786.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gur I, Sawyer K, Prasher R. Engineering. Searching for a better thermal battery. Science 2012;335:1454–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Frearson JA, Brand S, McElroy SP, Cleghorn LAT, Smid O, Stojanovski L, et al. N-myristoyltransferase inhibitors as new leads to treat sleeping sickness. Nature 2010;464:728–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sigee DC. Freshwater Microbiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Sipes JL. Creating Green Roadways: Integrating Cultural, Natural, and Visual Resources into Transportation. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Datta-Gupta A, Devegowda D, Oyerinde D, Cheng H. The Role of Streamline Models for Dynamic Data Assimilation in Petroleum Engineering and Hydrogeology. In: Cai X, Yeh T-CJ, editors. Quantitative Information Fusion for Hydrological Sciences, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 105–36.

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 Toxicologie Analytique et Clinique.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Why Do Some Smokers Have Healthy Lungs? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genetic-variations-may-be-protecting-some-smokers-lung-disease/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Telecommunications: Concerns Regarding the Structure and FCC’s Management of the E-Rate Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wenger MC. Free-choice family learning experiences at informal astronomy observing events. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2011.

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]

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. Arts, Briefly; Rostropovich Quits Moscow Opera. New York Times 2005:E2.

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	Toxicologie Analytique et Clinique
Abbreviation	Ann. Toxicol. Anal.
ISSN (print)	2352-0078
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