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

Zubelewicz A. Liquid-liquid-solid transition in viscoelastic liquids. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Biju SD, Bossuyt F. New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles. Nature. 2003;425(6959):711-714.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoehler TM, Bebout BM, Des Marais DJ. The role of microbial mats in the production of reduced gases on the early Earth. Nature. 2001;412(6844):324-327.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yuan Z, Becker EBE, Merlo P, et al. Activation of FOXO1 by Cdk1 in cycling cells and postmitotic neurons. Science. 2008;319(5870):1665-1668.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunt-Ahmed K. Contemporary Islamic Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Molinari E. Clinical Psychology and Heart Disease. (Parati G, Compare A, eds.). Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Fiorini S. Change in Natural Resource Management: An Experiment with “Participatory GIS.” In: Brondízio ES, Moran EF, eds. Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions. Springer Netherlands; 2013:97-112.

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

Davis J. 2015 Nobel Prize For Chemistry Awarded For DNA Repair Studies. IFLScience. October 7, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/2015-nobel-prize-chemistry-announced/

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. School Finance: State Efforts to Equalize Funding Between Wealthy and Poor School Districts. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Runyan TE. A Machine Learning Approach to Quantifying Likely Locations of Gas and Gas Hydrate Accumulation. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

Dwyer KP. Workers Warm to Contract Jobs. New York Times. January 22, 2006:104.

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