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. Zrenner, Will retinal implants restore vision?, Science. 295 (2002) 1022–1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Roberts, J. Travis, Mysteries of the brain, Science. 338 (2012) 30.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Kelber, A. Balkenius, E.J. Warrant, Scotopic colour vision in nocturnal hawkmoths, Nature. 419 (2002) 922–925.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Doulatov, A. Hodes, L. Dai, N. Mandhana, M. Liu, R. Deora, R.W. Simons, S. Zimmerly, J.F. Miller, Tropism switching in Bordetella bacteriophage defines a family of diversity-generating retroelements, Nature. 431 (2004) 476–481.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.J. Bottjer, Paleoecology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

L. Belli, P. De Filippi, eds., Net Neutrality Compendium: Human Rights, Free Competition and the Future of the Internet, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.P. Nelson, Hedonic Property Value Studies of Transportation Noise: Aircraft and Road Traffic, in: A. Baranzini, J. Ramirez, C. Schaerer, P. Thalmann (Eds.), Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets: Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation, Springer, New York, NY, 2008: pp. 57–82.

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]

E. Andrew, Can Astronomy Explain The Biblical Star of Bethlehem?, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/can-astronomy-explain-biblical-star-bethlehem/ (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, Close Air Support: Upgraded A-7 Aircraft’s Mission Effectiveness and Total Cost Unknown, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.E. Harris, A quantitative study of the impact of CFO and auditor turnover on internal control weaknesses, 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]

K. Crow, Snug as a Dog in a Baby Carrier Is the Latest Refrain for Pet Lovers, New York Times. (2000) 145.

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

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