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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Abbott A (2003) Anthropologists cast doubt on human DNA evidence. Nature 423:468

A journal article with 2 authors

Guydosh NR, Block SM (2009) Direct observation of the binding state of the kinesin head to the microtubule. Nature 461:125–128

A journal article with 3 authors

Burkett V, Groat CG, Reed D (2007) Hurricanes not the key to a sustainable coast. Science 315:1366–1368

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Freire-de-Lima CG, Nascimento DO, Soares MB, et al (2000) Uptake of apoptotic cells drives the growth of a pathogenic trypanosome in macrophages. Nature 403:199–203

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olofsson P (2006) Probabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Korogodina VL, Mothersill CE, Inge-Vechtomov SG, Seymour CB (eds) (2016) Genetics, Evolution and Radiation: Crossing Borders, The Interdisciplinary Legacy of Nikolay W. Timofeeff-Ressovsky. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Madarász JX, Ahmed TS (2013) Amalgamation, Interpolation and Epimorphisms in Algebraic Logic. In: Andréka H, Ferenczi M, Németi I (eds) Cylindric-like Algebras and Algebraic Logic. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 91–103

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

Andrew E (2014) Is Your Religion Ready To Meet ET? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/your-religion-ready-meet-et/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Compliance Status Information on Biomedical Equipment. 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

Yang Y (2003) Statistical Analysis of cDNA Microarrays: A Systematic Approach to Identify MTF-1 Mediated Gene Expression Profile in Response to Cadmium. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Tavernise S, Kovaleski SF, Turkewitz J (2017) ‘I Wish I Could Tell You He Was a Miserable Bastard.’ 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 (Abbott 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2003; Guydosh and Block 2009).

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

Two authors: (Guydosh and Block 2009)
Three or more authors: (Freire-de-Lima et al. 2000)

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