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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Regulatory 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

Fernald, R.D., 2006. Casting a genetic light on the evolution of eyes. Science 313, 1914–1918.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chemla, D.S., Shah, J., 2001. Many-body and correlation effects in semiconductors. Nature 411, 549–557.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cronin, T.W., Caldwell, R.L., Marshall, J., 2001. Sensory adaptation. Tunable colour vision in a mantis shrimp. Nature 411, 547–548.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vasanthi, D., Nagabhushan, A., Matharu, N.K., Mishra, R.K., 2013. A functionally conserved Polycomb response element from mouse HoxD complex responds to heterochromatin factors. Sci. Rep. 3, 3011.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou, C., 2010. Design and Analysis of Composite Structures. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Shi, D. (Ed.), 2009. NanoScience in Biomedicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kersten, G.E., 2014. Are Procurement Auctions Good for Society and for Buyers?, in: Zaraté, P., Kersten, G.E., Hernández, J.E. (Eds.), Group Decision and Negotiation. A Process-Oriented View: Joint INFORMS-GDN and EWG-DSS International Conference, GDN 2014, Toulouse, France, June 10-13, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 30–40.

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 Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Malaria Vaccine Trial Yields Promising Results [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/malaria-vaccine-trial-yields-promising-results/ (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, 2001. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (No. GAO-01-384R). 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

Deise, E.C., 2008. Frame problems, Fodor’s challenge, and practical reason (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Leland, J., 2017. Roz Chast Is New Yorkier Than You. New York Times MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fernald, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Chemla and Shah, 2001; Fernald, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Chemla and Shah, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Vasanthi et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0273-2300
Scope	General Medicine Toxicology