How to format your references using the Toxics citation style

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

Hemmer, P. Chemistry. Toward Molecular-Scale MRI. Science 2013, 339, 529–530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, S.; Coulter, D. Neuroscience. Neuronal Birth to Cortical Circuitry. Science 2013, 340, 1058–1059.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hannon, J.B.; Shenoy, V.B.; Schwarz, K.W. Anomalous Spiral Motion of Steps near Dislocations on Silicon Surfaces. Science 2006, 313, 1266–1269.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Buscarino, A.; Gambuzza, L.V.; Porfiri, M.; Fortuna, L.; Frasca, M. Robustness to Noise in Synchronization of Complex Networks. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2026.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramamoorti, S.; Morrison, D.E., III; Koletar, J.W.; Pope, K.R. A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118740422.

An edited book

Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 11th International Conference; Omatu, S., Bersini, H., Corchado, J.M., Rodríguez, S., Pawlewski, P., Bucciarelli, E., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; Vol. 290; ISBN 9783319075921.

A chapter in an edited book

Sabella, D.; Caretti, M.; Tomaselli, W.; Palestini, V.; Cendón, B.; Valino, J.; Medela, A.; Fernández, Y.; Sanchez, L. Evaluation of ON-OFF Schemes and Linear Prediction Methods for Increasing Energy Efficiency in Mobile Broadband Networks. In NETWORKING 2012 Workshops: International IFIP TC 6 Workshops, ETICS, HetsNets, and CompNets, Held at NETWORKING 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 25, 2012. Proceedings; Becvar, Z., Bestak, R., Kencl, L., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 27–34 ISBN 9783642300387.

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 Toxics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Space Whisky To Return To Earth (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Financial Market Preparedness: Improvements Made, but More Action Needed to Prepare for Wide-Scale Disasters; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2004;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzalez, S.N. Analysis of the Impact of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act on California’s Children: A Report Card on the CalWORKs Program. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Feeney, K. Home Is Where The Food Is Grown. New York Times 2008, NJ1.

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	Toxics
Abbreviation	Toxics
ISSN (online)	2305-6304
Scope