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

Kargel, J.S., 2004. Planetary science. Proof for water, hints of life? Science (New York, N.Y.) 306: 1689–1691.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pedersen, V.K. and Egholm, D.L., 2013. Glaciations in response to climate variations preconditioned by evolving topography. Nature 493: 206–210.

A journal article with 3 authors

Montague, P.R., Hyman, S.E. and Cohen, J.D., 2004. Computational roles for dopamine in behavioural control. Nature 431: 760–767.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Facci, L., Barbierato, M., Marinelli, C., Argentini, C., Skaper, S.D. and Giusti, P., 2014. Toll-like receptors 2, -3 and -4 prime microglia but not astrocytes across central nervous system regions for ATP-dependent interleukin-1β release. Scientific reports 4: 6824.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vilensky, J.A., Robertson, W.M. and Suárez-Quian, C.A., 2015. The Clinical Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Davison, S.G., 2006. Green-Function Theory of Chemisorption. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, XVIII, 211 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Carayannis, E.G., Pirzadeh, A. and Popescu, D., 2012. Case Study: International Financial Architecture and Standards. In: Pirzadeh, A. and Popescu, D. (eds.) Institutional Learning and Knowledge Transfer Across Epistemic Communities: New Tools of Global Governance. Springer, New York, NY, , pp. 151–170.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Earliest Known Pterodactyloid Discovered in China. IFLScience. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earliest-known-pterodactyloid-discovered-china/. 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, 1990. Early Childhood Education: What Are the Costs of High-Quality Programs? 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

Saxena, M., 2010. Learner analysis framework for globalized e-learning. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

St. John Kelly, E., 1997. Children Find Locks, Not Slides. New York Times November 23, 1997.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kargel, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Kargel, 2004; Pedersen and Egholm, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Pedersen and Egholm, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Facci et al., 2014)

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