How to format your references using the Advances in Radiation Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Radiation Oncology. 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

McGowan K. Masterclass: The gathering brainstorm. Nature. 2011;478(7368):S19-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joughin I, Tulaczyk S. Positive mass balance of the Ross Ice Streams, West Antarctica. Science. 2002;295(5554):476-480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mersch DP, Crespi A, Keller L. Tracking individuals shows spatial fidelity is a key regulator of ant social organization. Science. 2013;340(6136):1090-1093.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ren D, Navarro B, Perez G, et al. A sperm ion channel required for sperm motility and male fertility. Nature. 2001;413(6856):603-609.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levander CF. Where Is American Literature? Wiley Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

He X, Hua E, Lin Y, Liu X, eds. Computer, Informatics, Cybernetics and Applications: Proceedings of the CICA 2011. Vol 107. Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Miyazaki A, Enoki T. л-d Interaction-Based Molecular Conducting Magnets. In: Fourmigué M, Ouahab L, eds. Conducting and Magnetic Organometallic Molecular Materials. Topics in Organometallic Chemistry. Springer; 2009:77-96.

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 Advances in Radiation Oncology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Climate Change Took Away Pterosaurs’ Teeth. IFLScience. August 20, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/climate-change-took-away-pterosaurs-teeth/

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. Patent and Trademark Office: Key Processes for Managing Automated Patent System Development Are Weak. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ho CW. Music Genre on the Move: Discourse and the Cultural Production of Japanese Visual Rock in Hong Kong. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University; 2012.

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

Brantley B. A Richard III Straight Out of the Land of Id. New York Times. October 12, 2017:C4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Advances in Radiation Oncology
Abbreviation	Adv. Radiat. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	2452-1094
Scope	Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging