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

Roebroeks, W., 2014. Archaeology: Art on the move. Nature 514, 170–171.

A journal article with 2 authors

Redmond, S.A., Chan, J.R., 2012. Neuroscience. Revitalizing remyelination--the answer is circulating. Science 336, 161–162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cox, D., Meyers, E., Sinha, P., 2004. Contextually evoked object-specific responses in human visual cortex. Science 304, 115–117.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, P., Tevaarwerk, E., Park, B.-N., Savage, D.E., Celler, G.K., Knezevic, I., Evans, P.G., Eriksson, M.A., Lagally, M.G., 2006. Electronic transport in nanometre-scale silicon-on-insulator membranes. Nature 439, 703–706.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavagnini, I., Magno, F., Seraglia, R., Traldi, P., 2006. Quantitative Applications of Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Isaias, P., 2015. High Level Models and Methodologies for Information Systems. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Rensink, A., Zambon, E., 2012. Pattern-Based Graph Abstraction, in: Ehrig, H., Engels, G., Kreowski, H.-J., Rozenberg, G. (Eds.), Graph Transformations: 6th International Conference, ICGT 2012, Bremen, Germany, September 24-29, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 66–80.

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., 2016. When Myth Meets Reality: Fabled Beasts And Real-Life Creatures [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, 1989. ADP Modernization: IRS Needs to Assess Design Alternatives for Its Electronic Filing System (No. IMTEC-89-33). 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

Perilla, J.Y., 2015. Support group for neonatal intensive care families: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Kekszakallu. New York Times C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roebroeks, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Redmond and Chan, 2012; Roebroeks, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Redmond and Chan, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2006)

About the journal

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