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

Lipkin, H.J., 2000. The structure of matter. Nature 406: 127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iwao, C. and Shidoji, Y., 2014. Induction of nuclear translocation of mutant cytoplasmic p53 by geranylgeranoic acid in a human hepatoma cell line. Scientific reports 4: 4419.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilbert, I.R., Jarvis, P.G. and Smith, H., 2001. Proximity signal and shade avoidance differences between early and late successional trees. Nature 411: 792–795.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ajami, D., Oeckler, O., Simon, A. and Herges, R., 2003. Synthesis of a Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon. Nature 426: 819–821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feldkamp, F.L. and Whalen, R.C., 2014. Financial Stability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Won, C.-H., Schrader, C.B. and Michel, A.N. (eds.), 2008. Advances in Statistical Control, Algebraic Systems Theory, and Dynamic Systems Characteristics: A Tribute to Michael K. Sain. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, XVIII, 366 p. 59 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Sturm, A. and Kramer, O., 2013. Utilizing Application Frameworks: A Domain Engineering Approach. In: Reinhartz-Berger, I., Sturm, A., Clark, T., Cohen, S. and Bettin, J. (eds.) Domain Engineering: Product Lines, Languages, and Conceptual Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, , pp. 113–130.

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. Dubai Could Have the World’s First Fully Functional 3D-Printed Building. IFLScience. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/dubai-could-have-worlds-first-3d-printed-building/. 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, 1991. Medical ADP Systems: Changes in Composite Health Care System’s Deployment Strategy Are Unwise. 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

DeReus, D.L., 2012. The correlation between career anchors and satisfaction - a comparative analysis of multiple affiliations under a single organizational structure. 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

Lee, L., 2009. At a Park, a Cornucopia of Crafts. New York Times June 25, 2009.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lipkin, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Iwao and Shidoji, 2014; Lipkin, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Iwao and Shidoji, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ajami et al., 2003)

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