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]

Ciesla FJ. Planetary science. Observing our origins. Science 2008;319:1488–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ali JR, Huber M. Mammalian biodiversity on Madagascar controlled by ocean currents. Nature 2010;463:653–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Loewe L, Textor V, Scherer S. High deleterious genomic mutation rate in stationary phase of Escherichia coli. Science 2003;302:1558–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Olson LE, Richtsmeier JT, Leszl J, Reeves RH. A chromosome 21 critical region does not cause specific Down syndrome phenotypes. Science 2004;306:687–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McMaster MC. Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Bull R, editor. Investigative Interviewing. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Eastburn DM, D’Arcy CJ. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Projects in Plant Pathology. In: Hardwick N, Gullino ML, editors. Knowledge and Technology Transfer for Plant Pathology, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010, p. 45–53.

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. Tesla May Release Patents To Encourage Supercharger Collaborators. 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. Aviation Security: FAA’s Deployments of Equipment to Detect Traces of Explosives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dunn LK. Hiring manager’s consideration process for ex-offender job applicants: A grounded theory study. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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]

Stellin S. For Carry-On Bags, Size Is Just the Beginning. New York Times 2013:TR4.

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
Scope