How to format your references using the Toxicon: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Toxicon: X. 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

Fürstner, A., 2013. Teaching metathesis “simple” stereochemistry. Science 341, 1229713.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolf, E.T., Toon, O.B., 2010. Fractal organic hazes provided an ultraviolet shield for early Earth. Science 328, 1266–1268.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staal, M., Meysman, F.J.R., Stal, L.J., 2003. Temperature excludes N2-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria in the tropical oceans. Nature 425, 504–507.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yamaguchi, S., Kobayashi, M., Mitsui, S., Ishida, Y., van der Horst, G.T., Suzuki, M., Shibata, S., Okamura, H., 2001. View of a mouse clock gene ticking. Nature 409, 684.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deroussi, L., 2016. Metaheuristics for Logistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Al-Khayri, J.M., Jain, S.M., Johnson, D.V. (Eds.), 2016. Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Giordano, L., Toni, F., 2010. Knowledge Representation and Non-monotonic Reasoning, in: Dovier, A., Pontelli, E. (Eds.), A 25-Year Perspective on Logic Programming: Achievements of the Italian Association for Logic Programming, GULP, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 87–111.

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: X.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Researchers Are Developing GM Pigs For Animal-To-Human Organ Transplant [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-are-developing-gm-pigs-animal-human-organ-transplant/ (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. Environmental Protection: Research and Development of Plasma Arc Technology Used to Treat Hazardous Waste (No. NSIAD-99-51R). 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

Robinson, L.M., 2001. Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy to Examine Exciton Dynamics in II-VI Semiconductor Nanostructures (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Williams, J., 2017. The Russian Revolution, Without Fiction. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fürstner, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Fürstner, 2013; Wolf and Toon, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wolf and Toon, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yamaguchi et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Toxicon: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1710
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