How to format your references using the Mycotoxin Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mycotoxin Research. 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

Jokipii JR (2007) Planetary science. A local wiggle in the turbulent interstellar magnetic field. Science 316:839–840

A journal article with 2 authors

Boolchand P, Bresser WJ (2001) Mobile silver ions and glass formation in solid electrolytes. Nature 410:1070–1073

A journal article with 3 authors

Choudhury S, Morgan D, Uberuaga BP (2014) Massive interfacial reconstruction at misfit dislocations in metal/oxide interfaces. Sci Rep 4:6533

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bachman ES, Dhillon H, Zhang C-Y, et al (2002) betaAR signaling required for diet-induced thermogenesis and obesity resistance. Science 297:843–845

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C (2014) Fatigue Damage. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pfister H (2015) Inertia and Gravitation: The Fundamental Nature and Structure of Space-Time. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Summerville D, Skormin V, Volynkin A, Moronski J (2005) Prevention of Information Attacks by Run-Time Detection of Self-replication in Computer Codes. In: Gorodetsky V, Kotenko I, Skormin V (eds) Computer Network Security: Third International Workshop on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 24-28, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 54–75

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 Mycotoxin Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Giant Alien-Like “Shrimp” Caught Off Florida Is Identified. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oversized-alien-shrimp-caught-florida-ided-currently-being-written-ls/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1989) Laboratory Accreditation: Requirements Vary Throughout the Federal Government. 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

Baker MC (2010) A descriptive study of the view from the top: Perspectives of experts in continuing medical education. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Brantley B (2017) We’re All Doomed. It Says So in the Script. New York Times C4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jokipii 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Boolchand and Bresser 2001; Jokipii 2007).

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

Two authors: (Boolchand and Bresser 2001)
Three or more authors: (Bachman et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mycotoxin Research
Abbreviation	Mycotoxin Res.
ISSN (print)	0178-7888
ISSN (online)	1867-1632
Scope	Biotechnology Microbiology Toxicology