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]

K.L. Tanaka, Geology and insolation-driven climatic history of Amazonian north polar materials on Mars, Nature 437 (2005) 991–994.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.J. Enquist, K.J. Niklas, Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning in seed plants, Science 295 (2002) 1517–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Veizer, Y. Godderis, L.M. François, Evidence for decoupling of atmospheric CO2 and global climate during the Phanerozoic eon, Nature 408 (2000) 698–701.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.A. Webster, D. Kaping, Y. Mizokami, P. Duhamel, Adaptation to natural facial categories, Nature 428 (2004) 557–561.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Assing, S. Calé, Mobile Access Safety, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

F. Bux, Y. Chisti, eds., Algae Biotechnology: Products and Processes, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.V. Kolobov, J. Tominaga, From 3D to 2D: Fabrication Methods, in: J. Tominaga (Ed.), Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 79–107.

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. Davis, Researchers Trick Migrating Song Birds By Altering The Magnetic Field They’re Exposed To, IFLScience (2015).

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, Highway Trust Fund: Financial Condition as of September 30, 1997, 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]

K.-S. Park, Transcriptional Regulation In The Respiratory Epithelium During Development And Repair, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2006.

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]

G.G. Gustines, Look! Up in the Sky! Hoping for Broadway!, New York Times (2010) AR3.

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