How to format your references using the Toxicology Reports citation style

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

D. Wineland, Norman Ramsey (1915-2011), Nature 480 (2011) 182.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Schwämmle, H.J. Herrmann, Geomorphology: solitary wave behaviour of sand dunes, Nature 426 (2003) 619–620.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.S. Cram, B. Song, A.O. Trounson, Genotyping of Rhesus SCNT pluripotent stem cell lines, Nature 450 (2007) E12-4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-H. Jang, E. Lee, J. Park, G. Kim, S. Hong, Y.-U. Kwon, Rational syntheses of core-shell Fex@Pt nanoparticles for the study of electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.K. Misra, Practical Electromagnetics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

P. Schuck, ed., Protein Interactions: Biophysical Approaches for the Study of Complex Reversible Systems, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T.A. Grushko, O.I. Olopade, Genetic Markers in Breast Tumors with Hereditary Predisposition, in: M.H. Bronchud, M.A. Foote, G. Giaccone, O. Olopade, P. Workman (Eds.), Principles of Molecular Oncology, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2008: pp. 85–105.

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 Toxicology Reports.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Why Antarctic Sea Ice Is Growing, While Arctic Sea Ice Is Melting, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-antarctic-sea-ice-growing-while-arctic-sea-ice-melting/ (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, Gulf War Illnesses: DOD’s Conclusions About U.S. Troops’ Exposure Cannot Be Adequately Supported, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Chung, Health Information Infrastructure: Flows and Frictions, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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.W. Walsh, Puerto Rico Has Another Debt Worry on Horizon, New York Times (2015) B1.

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	Toxicology Reports
Abbreviation	Toxicol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2214-7500
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Toxicology