How to format your references using the Journal of Luminescence citation style

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

[1]

H.N. Chapman, Applied physics. Focus on x-ray diffraction, Science 321 (2008) 352–353.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.A. Deschenes, D.A. Vanden Bout, Single-molecule studies of heterogeneous dynamics in polymer melts near the glass transition, Science 292 (2001) 255–258.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Martianov, S. Viville, I. Davidson, RNA polymerase II transcription in murine cells lacking the TATA binding protein, Science 298 (2002) 1036–1039.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.A. Lockwood, C.G. Menter, J. Moggi-Cecchi, A.W. Keyser, Extended male growth in a fossil hominin species, Science 318 (2007) 1443–1446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.J. Bakus, Quantitative Analysis of Marine Biological Communities, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

M. Claypool, S. Uhlig, eds., Passive and Active Network Measurement: 9th International Conference, PAM 2008, Cleveland, OH, USA, April 29-30, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Basaruddin, H. Haron, Knowledge Taxonomy for Developing Organizational Memory System (OMS) for Public Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) in Malaysia, in: J.M. Zain, W.M. bt Wan Mohd, E. El-Qawasmeh (Eds.), Software Engineering and Computer Systems: Second International Conference, ICSECS 2011, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, June 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 43–57.

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 Journal of Luminescence.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, SpaceX Given Second Mission By NASA To Launch Astronauts Into Space, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-given-second-mission-by-nasa-to-launch-astronauts-into-space/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership Needed to Avoid Disruption of Essential Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.A. Hoch, The Effects of Systematic Reinforcement on Academic Performance in Precision Teaching: An Investigation of Acquisition, Retention, and Endurance, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2014.

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]

L. Marx, A Model Walks Into a Bar …, New York Times (2015) ST21.

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	Journal of Luminescence
Abbreviation	J. Lumin.
ISSN (print)	0022-2313
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics General Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics