How to format your references using the Toxicon citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Toxicon. 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	Download the output style file
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

Jewkes, R., 2010. HIV/AIDS. Gender inequities must be addressed in HIV prevention. Science 329, 145–147.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matear, R.J., McNeil, B.I., 2006. Comment on “Preindustrial to modern interdecadal variability in coral reef pH.” Science 314, 595.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, S., Matthews, J., Sinha, A., 2008. Atmospheric hydroxyl radical production from electronically excited NO2 and H2O. Science 319, 1657–1660.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Jones, R.J., Ward, S., Loh, W.K., 2002. Communication arising. Is coral bleaching really adaptive? Nature 415, 601–602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ellis, R., 2012. Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Depla, D., Mahieu, S. (Eds.), 2008. Reactive Sputter Deposition, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Shapiro, S., 2006. Effectiveness, in: Benthem, J. van, Heinzmann, G., Rebuschi, M., Visser, H. (Eds.), The Age of Alternative Logics: Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 37–49.

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 Toxicon.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. High School Students Make Martin Shkreli’s 5,000% Price-Hike Drug For Just $2 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 1999. Federal Education Funding: Allocation to State and Local Agencies for 10 Programs (No. HEHS-99-180). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gardina, V.J., 2008. Analysis of LiDAR data for fluvial geomorphic change detection at a small Maryland stream (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM28.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Jewkes, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jewkes, 2010; Matear and McNeil, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Matear and McNeil, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Hoegh-Guldberg et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Toxicon
Abbreviation	Toxicon
ISSN (print)	0041-0101
Scope	Toxicology