How to format your references using the Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Hardie, D.G., 2010. Transcription. Targeting the core of transcription. Science 329, 1158–1159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Geschwind, D.H., Flint, J., 2015. Genetics and genomics of psychiatric disease. Science 349, 1489–1494.

A journal article with 3 authors

Drinnenberg, I.A., Fink, G.R., Bartel, D.P., 2011. Compatibility with killer explains the rise of RNAi-deficient fungi. Science 333, 1592.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vander Weele, C.M., Siciliano, C.A., Matthews, G.A., Namburi, P., Izadmehr, E.M., Espinel, I.C., Nieh, E.H., Schut, E.H.S., Padilla-Coreano, N., Burgos-Robles, A., Chang, C.-J., Kimchi, E.Y., Beyeler, A., Wichmann, R., Wildes, C.P., Tye, K.M., 2018. Dopamine enhances signal-to-noise ratio in cortical-brainstem encoding of aversive stimuli. Nature 563, 397–401.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simmons, M., Dalgleish, E., 2006. Corporate Actions. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Gübitz, G., Bauer, A., Bochmann, G., Gronauer, A., Weiss, S. (Eds.), 2015. Biogas Science and Technology, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, M.-W., Huang, Y., Chen, I.-Y., Lu, S.-K., Kuo, S.-Y., 2006. A Scalable Port Forwarding for P2P-Based Wi-Fi Applications, in: Cheng, X., Li, W., Znati, T. (Eds.), Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications: First International Conference, WASA 2006, Xi’an, China, August 15-17, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 26–37.

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 Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Contender For Most Massive Dinosaur May Not Have Been So Hefty After All [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/contender-most-massive-dinosaur-may-not-have-been-so-hefty-after-all/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1992. Intelligence Programs: New RC-135 Aircraft Engines Can Reduce Cost and Improve Performance (No. NSIAD-92-305). 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

Irving, A.V., 2017. Occupational Stress and Law Enforcement Officer Significant Relationships (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Novick, S.M., 2015. Reaching Across the Menu Divide. New York Times LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hardie, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Geschwind and Flint, 2015; Hardie, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Geschwind and Flint, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Vander Weele et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Environ. Toxicol. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1382-6689
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis General Medicine Pharmacology Toxicology