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]

E. Ostrom, A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems, Science. 325 (2009) 419–422.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.J. Starr, T.W. Cline, A host parasite interaction rescues Drosophila oogenesis defects, Nature. 418 (2002) 76–79.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.O. Lovejoy, K.G. Heiple, R.S. Meindl, Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk?, Nature. 410 (2001) 325–326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.T. Ellis, A.V. Stier, M.-H. Kim, J.G. Tischler, E.R. Glaser, R.L. Myers-Ward, J.L. Tedesco, C.R. Eddy Jr, D.K. Gaskill, J. Cerne, Magneto-optical fingerprints of distinct graphene multilayers using the giant infrared Kerr effect, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3143.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Morales, C. Kacher, Short Selling with the O’Neil Disciples, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J. Van den Broeck, J.R. Brestoff, eds., Epidemiology: Principles and Practical Guidelines, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Hogan, M. Tacke, Titanocenes: Cytotoxic and Anti-angiogenic Chemotherapy Against Advanced Renal-Cell Cancer, in: G. Jaouen, N. Metzler-Nolte (Eds.), Medicinal Organometallic Chemistry, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 119–140.

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]

S. Luntz, Canada And Nasa Partner To Intercept A Potentially Hazardous Asteroid, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/canada-and-nasa-partner-intercept-potentially-hazardous-asteroid/ (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, Secure Flight: TSA Should Take Additional Steps to Determine Program Effectiveness, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.D. Cervantes-Kelly, Translation and interpretation as a means to improve bilingual high school students’ English and Spanish academic language proficiency, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2010.

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]

L. Greenhouse, Court Rejects Interpretation Of Immigration Drug Law, New York Times. (2006) A22.

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