How to format your references using the Toxicology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Toxicology Reports. 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]

I. Wickelgren, Neuroscience. Monkey see, monkey think about doing, Science 305 (2004) 162–163.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.-C. Wu, C.-C. Chen, The symmetry detection mechanisms are color selective, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3893.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Dwyer, J. Dushoff, S.H. Yee, The combined effects of pathogens and predators on insect outbreaks, Nature 430 (2004) 341–345.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Huisman, N.N. Pham Thi, D.M. Karl, B. Sommeijer, Reduced mixing generates oscillations and chaos in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum, Nature 439 (2006) 322–325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Merritt, Process Steam Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

P. Crescenzi, G. Prencipe, G. Pucci, eds., Fun with Algorithms: 4th International Conference, FUN 2007, Castiglioncello, Italy, June 3-5, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Lüttich, T. Mossakowski, Reasoning Support for Casl with Automated Theorem Proving Systems, in: J.L. Fiadeiro, P.-Y. Schobbens (Eds.), Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques: 18th International Workshop, WADT 2006, La Roche En Ardenne, Belgium, June 1-3, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 74–91.

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 Toxicology Reports.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Your Dog Can Tell When You’re Lying, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dogs-can-judge-trustworthiness/ (accessed October 30, 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, Motor Vehicle Safety: Information on Recent Controversy Between NHTSA and Consumer Group, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. van der Steen, Intended infidelity: Male-female differences in intention-behavior congruence and the relative prediction power of gender, relationship and individual difference variables, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

M.W. Walsh, Claiming Fraud in A.I.G. Bailout, Whistle-Blower Lawsuit Names 3 Companies, New York Times (2011) B6.

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	Toxicology Reports
Abbreviation	Toxicol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2214-7500
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Toxicology