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]

Pain E. Science careers. Playing well with industry. Science 2008;319:1548–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zufall RA, Rausher MD. Genetic changes associated with floral adaptation restrict future evolutionary potential. Nature 2004;428:847–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Laubach M, Wessberg J, Nicolelis MA. Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behaviour outcomes during learning of a motor task. Nature 2000;405:567–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shang GL, Fei GT, Zhang Y, Yan P, Xu SH, Ouyang HM, et al. Fano resonance in anodic aluminum oxide based photonic crystals. Sci Rep 2014;4:3601.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Montgomery GE, Schuch HC. GIS Data Conversion Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Seli E, Agarwal A, editors. Fertility Preservation: Emerging Technologies and Clinical Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jellinger K, Krismer F. Aetiopathogenesis. In: Wenning GK, Fanciulli A, editors. Multiple System Atrophy, Vienna: Springer; 2014, p. 57–81.

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]

Andrew E. Drone that Traps Mosquitoes May Prevent Epidemics. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/drone-mosquito-trap/ (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. Multiple Launch Rocket System: Range Less Than Needed and Sustained Rocket Production Not Ensured. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bennett JL. An examination of therapeutic recreation programs for veterans with combat-related disabilities and their families. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2013.

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]

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2017:MM24.

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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