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

Koroshetz WJ (2014) Perspective: time to tackle blood pressure. Nature 510:S4

A journal article with 2 authors

Ogura K, Okamura H (2013) Conformational change of Sos-derived proline-rich peptide upon binding Grb2 N-terminal SH3 domain probed by NMR. Sci Rep 3:2913

A journal article with 3 authors

Frank MJ, Seeberger LC, O’reilly RC (2004) By carrot or by stick: cognitive reinforcement learning in parkinsonism. Science 306:1940–1943

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Coxall HK, Wilson PA, Pälike H, et al (2005) Rapid stepwise onset of Antarctic glaciation and deeper calcite compensation in the Pacific Ocean. Nature 433:53–57

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Penner T, Lopez DC (2015) De-Introducing the New Testament. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Tan Y, Shi Y, Chai Y, Wang G (eds) (2011) Advances in Swarm Intelligence: Second International Conference, ICSI 2011, Chongqing, China, June 12-15, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Futagami K, Shibata A (2016) Keeping One Step Ahead of the Joneses: Status, the Distribution of Wealth, and Long Run Growth. In: Ikeda S, Kato HK, Ohtake F, Tsutsui Y (eds) Behavioral Interactions, Markets, and Economic Dynamics: Topics in Behavioral Economics. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 141–162

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

Fang J (2015) Enzyme Modification Means Roundworms Live Twice As Long. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/roundworms-live-twice-long-enzyme-modification/. 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 (2012) Next Generation Air Transportation System: FAA Faces Implementation Challenges. 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

Konggidinata MI (2017) Application and Modifications of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon (OMC) for BTEX Removal: Characterization, Adsorption Mechanisms, and Kinetic Studies. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Gordon MR (2017) A Freed but Scarred City Tests Trump. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koroshetz 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ogura and Okamura 2013; Koroshetz 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ogura and Okamura 2013)
Three or more authors: (Coxall 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