How to format your references using the World Mycotoxin Journal citation style

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

Wilson, R.C., 2000. The Great Goodbye. Nature 407: 303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu, P. and Werb, Z., 2008. Patterning mechanisms of branched organs. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322: 1506–1509.

A journal article with 3 authors

True, H.L., Berlin, I. and Lindquist, S.L., 2004. Epigenetic regulation of translation reveals hidden genetic variation to produce complex traits. Nature 431: 184–187.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Whitehouse, I., Rando, O.J., Delrow, J. and Tsukiyama, T., 2007. Chromatin remodelling at promoters suppresses antisense transcription. Nature 450: 1031–1035.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stanoyevitch, A., 2004. Introduction to Numerical Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations Using MATLAB®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Capasso, F. (ed.), 2011. Farmacognosia: Botanica, chimica e farmacologia delle piante medicinali. Springer, Milano, XXII, 489 pagg pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Katagi, T., 2006. Behavior of Pesticides in Water-Sediment Systems. In: Ware, G.W., Albert, L.A., Voogt, P. de, Gerba, C.P., Hutzinger, O., Knaak, J.B., Mayer, F.L., Morgan, D.P., Park, D.L., Tjeerdema, R.S., Whitacre, D.M., Yang, R.S.H. and Gunther, F.A. (eds.) Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology: Continuation of Residue Reviews. Springer, New York, NY, , pp. 133–251.

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 World Mycotoxin Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Genetic Link Between Autism And Better Cognitive Ability Found. IFLScience. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/genetic-link-between-autism-and-better-cognitive-ability-found/. Accessed October 30, 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, 1977. Status of Project PISCES. 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

Nomberg, R.I., 2009. Understanding interest group strategies: A case study of civic leaders collaborating with local government. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University.

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

Solomon, B.C. and Villamor, F., 2017. In a City of Ruins, the Philippines’ Fierce Battle With ISIS Rages On. New York Times September 1, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wilson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lu and Werb, 2008; Wilson, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lu and Werb, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Whitehouse et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	World Mycotoxin Journal
Abbreviation	World Mycotoxin J.
ISSN (print)	1875-0710
ISSN (online)	1875-0796
Scope	Food Science Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Toxicology