How to format your references using the Neurotoxicology and Teratology citation style

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

Brenner, S., 2014. Retrospective. Frederick Sanger (1918-2013). Science 343, 262.

A journal article with 2 authors

Muerdter, F., Stark, A., 2014. Genomics: Hiding in plain sight. Nature 512, 374–375.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zaimi, K., Ishak, A., Pop, I., 2014. Boundary layer flow and heat transfer over a nonlinearly permeable stretching/shrinking sheet in a nanofluid. Sci. Rep. 4, 4404.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peng, C.Y., Manning, L., Albertson, R., Doe, C.Q., 2000. The tumour-suppressor genes lgl and dlg regulate basal protein targeting in Drosophila neuroblasts. Nature 408, 596–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bruen, G.O., 2015. WHOIS Running the Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Siddik, Z.H. (Ed.), 2009. Checkpoint Controls and Targets in Cancer Therapy, 1st ed, Cancer Drug Discovery and Development. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Shah, S.K., Nishi, S.P.E., Sharma, G., 2012. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Older Patients, in: Pisani, M. (Ed.), Aging and Lung Disease: A Clinical Guide. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 63–87.

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 Neurotoxicology and Teratology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. The Martian: A Perfect Balance Of Scientific Accuracy And Gripping Fiction [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1987. Air Traffic Control: FAA Should Avoid Duplication in Procuring a Traffic Management System (No. IMTEC-88-8). 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

Louviere, E.C., 2017. Bonds Behind Bars: The Impact of Program Participation on Interpersonal Inmate Connections in Louisiana State Penitentiary (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. Men’s and Women’s 800-Meter Teams Are Settled. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brenner, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brenner, 2014; Muerdter and Stark, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Muerdter and Stark, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Peng et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurotoxicology and Teratology
Abbreviation	Neurotoxicol. Teratol.
ISSN (print)	0892-0362
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience Toxicology