How to format your references using the Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Owens B (2014) Stroke. Nature 510:S1

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith JS, Boeke JD (2001) Transcription. Is S phase important for transcriptional silencing? Science 291:608–609

A journal article with 3 authors

Gershman SJ, Horvitz EJ, Tenenbaum JB (2015) Computational rationality: A converging paradigm for intelligence in brains, minds, and machines. Science 349:273–278

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tomita S, Adesnik H, Sekiguchi M, et al (2005) Stargazin modulates AMPA receptor gating and trafficking by distinct domains. Nature 435:1052–1058

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prydie D, Hewitt I (2015) Practical Physiotherapy for Small Animal Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gibbons J (ed) (2012) Generic and Indexed Programming: International Spring School, SSGIP 2010, Oxford, UK, March 22-26, 2010, Revised Lectures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Li L (2014) Logistics Development in Zhejiang Province. In: Liu B-L, Lee S-J, Wang L, et al. (eds) Contemporary Logistics in China: Assimilation and Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 65–83

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 Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Kids Who Suck Their Thumbs And Bite Their Nails May Have Fewer Allergies. In: IFLScience. 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 (1982) Methodology Transfer Paper 3. 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

Maloney JL (2015) Analyzing Students’ Personal Characteristics to Determine Study Outcomes. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Kenigsberg B (2016) The Listings; Film Series. New York Times C28

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Owens 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Smith and Boeke 2001; Owens 2014).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Boeke 2001)
Three or more authors: (Tomita et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Abbreviation	Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	0090-4341
ISSN (online)	1432-0703
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution General Medicine Toxicology