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

A’Hearn, M.F., 2006. Whence comets? Science (New York, N.Y.) 314: 1708–1709.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ernest, S.K. and Brown, J.H., 2001. Delayed compensation for missing keystone species by colonization. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292: 101–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feng, M., Zhao, J. and Petek, H., 2008. Atomlike, hollow-core-bound molecular orbitals of C60. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320: 359–362.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Anwar, M.S., Nakamura, T., Yonezawa, S., Yakabe, M., Ishiguro, R., Takayanagi, H. and Maeno, Y., 2013. Anomalous switching in Nb/Ru/Sr₂RuO₄ topological junctions by chiral domain wall motion. Scientific reports 3: 2480.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olofsson, P., 2006. Probabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Riederer, P., Reichmann, H., Youdim, M.B.H. and Gerlach, M. (eds.), 2006. Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders. Springer, Vienna, X, 506 p. 75 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ellis-Monaghan, J.A. and Moffatt, I., 2013. Interactions with Graph Polynomials. In: Moffatt, I. (ed.) Graphs on Surfaces: Dualities, Polynomials, and Knots. Springer, New York, NY, , pp. 61–99.

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

Davis, J., 2017. Melting Sea Ice Causing Hungry Polar Bears To Switch From Seals To Goose Nesting Sites. IFLScience. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/melting-sea-ice-causing-hungry-polar-bears-to-switch-from-seals-to-goose-nesting-sites/. 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, 2014. Information Technology: HUD’s Expenditure Plan Satisfied Statutory Conditions; Sustained Controls and Modernization Approach Needed. 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

Chamberlain, A.D., 2014. Policy and Behavior: Essays in Applied Microeconomics. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego.

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

Risen, J. and Rosenberg, M., 2017. President Wants Ally to Review U.S. Spy Agencies. New York Times February 16, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (A’Hearn, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (A’Hearn, 2006; Ernest and Brown, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Ernest and Brown, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Anwar et al., 2013)

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