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

Montgomery, S.L. Newton in Japan. Nature 2001, 411, 25.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doubleday, R.; Wilsdon, J. Science Policy: Beyond the Great and Good. Nature 2012, 485, 301–302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stott, P.A.; Stone, D.A.; Allen, M.R. Human Contribution to the European Heatwave of 2003. Nature 2004, 432, 610–614.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mysterud, A.; Stenseth, N.C.; Yoccoz, N.G.; Langvatn, R.; Steinheim, G. Nonlinear Effects of Large-Scale Climatic Variability on Wild and Domestic Herbivores. Nature 2001, 410, 1096–1099.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Howe, T.R. Marriages & Families in the 21st Century; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2011; ISBN 9781444344714.

An edited book

Information Security and Cryptology – ICISC 2008: 11th International Conference, Seoul, Korea, December 3-5, 2008, Revised Selected Papers; Lee, P.J., Cheon, J.H., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 5461; ISBN 9783642007293.

A chapter in an edited book

Hamby, S.; Grych, J. Implications for Research: Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Interpersonal Violence. In The Web of Violence: Exploring Connections Among Different Forms of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse; Grych, J., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Sociology; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; pp. 67–79 ISBN 9789400755956.

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

Davis, J. Copying Rabies Could Provide A New Way To Treat Brain Cancer (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 Rail Transportation: Federal Railroad Administration’s New Approach to Railroad Safety; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1997;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Belflower, K.E. The Relationship between Demographic and Employment Variables of Job Satisfaction among Emergency Nurses. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2012.

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. One Book, One City. New York Times 2017, C2.

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

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