How to format your references using the Toxics citation style

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

Brookfield, J.F. Predicting the Future. Nature 2001, 411, 999.

A journal article with 2 authors

Girguis, P.R.; Lee, R.W. Thermal Preference and Tolerance of Alvinellids. Science 2006, 312, 231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bonasio, R.; Tu, S.; Reinberg, D. Molecular Signals of Epigenetic States. Science 2010, 330, 612–616.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

D’Autréaux, B.; Tucker, N.P.; Dixon, R.; Spiro, S. A Non-Haem Iron Centre in the Transcription Factor NorR Senses Nitric Oxide. Nature 2005, 437, 769–772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duchon, C.; Hale, R. Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781119953104.

An edited book

Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2009: 12th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 15-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers; Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada-Arencibia, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 5717; ISBN 9783642047718.

A chapter in an edited book

Trautschold, M.; Mazo, G. Windows PC Setup. In BlackBerry Curve Made Simple: For the BlackBerry Curve 8520, 8530 and 8500 Series; Mazo, G., Anglin, S., Markham, J., Andres, C., Beckner, M., Buckingham, E., Cornell, G., Gennick, J., Hassell, J., Lowman, M., Moodie, M., Parkes, D., Pepper, J., Pohlmann, F., Pundick, D., Renow-Clarke, B., Shakeshaft, D., Wade, M., Welsh, T., Becker, L., Fugate, M.A., Marcheso, C., Meador, P., Moore, R., Stence, K., Eds.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2010; pp. 67–104 ISBN 9781430231233.

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 Toxics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Can We Expand Solar Power Dramatically Without Damaging Protected Lands? (accessed on 30 October 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 Federal Guidance Needed If Halfway Houses Are To Be a Viable Alternative to Prison; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1975;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Austin, C.A. Intravenous Exposure of Pregnant Mice to Silver Nanoparticles: Silver Tissue Distribution and Effects in Maternal and Extra-Embryonic Tissues and Embryos. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2013.

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

Williams, J. One Side Effect of Viagra: Inspiration to Write. New York Times 2017, C6.

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	Toxics
Abbreviation	Toxics
ISSN (online)	2305-6304
Scope