How to format your references using the Journal of Medical Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medical Toxicology. 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 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

1. Mallet J. Hybrid speciation. Nature. 2007;446:279–83.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Milisavljevic D, Fesen RA. Supernovae. The bubble-like interior of the core-collapse supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Science. 2015;347:526–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chao BF, Wu YH, Li YS. Impact of artificial reservoir water impoundment on global sea level. Science. 2008;320:212–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Malaney P, Pathak RR, Xue B, Uversky VN, Davé V. Intrinsic disorder in PTEN and its interactome confers structural plasticity and functional versatility. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2035.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Vallin RW. The Elements of Cantor Sets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. de Souza FL, Leite ER, editors. Nanoenergy: Nanotechnology Applied for Energy Production. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hämmerli M. Orthodox Church(es) Stepping out of the Orthodox Heartland. In: Snyder S, Ralston J, Brazal AM, editors. Church in an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 51–63.

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 Journal of Medical Toxicology.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Martian Valleys May Have Been Formed By Ice, Not Water [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/martian-valleys-may-have-been-formed-ice-not-water/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jun. Report No.: NSIAD-90-142.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sripinit T. How Much Do We Understand About Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy? [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2012.

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

1. Fausset R, Shear MD, Nixon R, Robles F. Slow Pace of Aid Riles Puerto Rico. New York Times. 2017 Sep 29;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Medical Toxicology
Abbreviation	J. Med. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	1556-9039
ISSN (online)	1937-6995
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Toxicology