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]

G.K. Hansson, Medicine. LIGHT hits the liver, Science. 316 (2007) 206–207.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.W.S. Lee, N. Schwarz, Washing away postdecisional dissonance, Science. 328 (2010) 709.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Xu, Q. Wang, Y. Tian, Bulk modulus for polar covalent crystals, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3068.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Férey, C. Mellot-Draznieks, C. Serre, F. Millange, J. Dutour, S. Surblé, I. Margiolaki, A chromium terephthalate-based solid with unusually large pore volumes and surface area, Science. 309 (2005) 2040–2042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Derbyshire, Nutrition in the Childbearing Years, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M. Baronti, Calculus Problems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Hess, M. Nussbaumer, H. Hlavacs, K.A. Hummel, Automatic Adaptation and Analysis of SIP Headers Using Decision Trees, in: H. Schulzrinne, R. State, S. Niccolini (Eds.), Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications. Services and Security for Next Generation Networks: Second International Conference, IPTComm 2008, Heidelberg, Germany, July 1-2, 2008. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 69–89.

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]

E. Andrew, Natural Cancer Remedies: Sorting Fact From Fiction, 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, House of Representatives’ Amendment to the Energy Research and Development Administration’s Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 1978, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.S. Jenkins, Comprehensive support for children of incarcerated parents and their families, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

S. Kishkovsky, Party Time Where the Soviet Army Strutted, New York Times. (2007) TR3.

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

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