How to format your references using the Annals of the ICRP citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of the ICRP. 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

Lay, T., 2012. Seismology: Why giant earthquakes keep catching us out. Nature 483, 149–150.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, R.T., Lovley, D.R., 2000. Hexadecane decay by methanogenesis. Nature 404, 722–723.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abundo, C., Monterola, C., Legara, E.F., 2014. Criticality of forcing directions on the fragmentation and resilience of grid networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 6195.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Quattrocchi, C.C., Huang, C., Niu, S., Sheldon, M., Benhayon, D., Cartwright, J., Jr, Mosier, D.R., Keller, F., D’Arcangelo, G., 2003. Reelin promotes peripheral synapse elimination and maturation. Science 301, 649–653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carter, M., Bentley, S.P., 2016. Soil Properties and their Correlations. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Badertscher, M., 2009. Structure Determination of Organic Compounds: Tables of Spectral Data. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Assens, C., Lemeur, A.C., 2016. From Network to “Network of Networks,” in: Lemeur, A.C. (Ed.), Networks Governance, Partnership Management and Coalitions Federation. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 26–37.

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 Annals of the ICRP.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Surgeon Finds Twin In Woman’s Brain [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/twin-found-womans-brain/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2016. Child Care: Information on Integrating Early Care and Education Funding (No. GAO-16-775R). 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

Allyasin, F., 2010. Low-cost frequency-domain methods of ruby fluorescence lifetime measurements (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vasquez, E., 2015. A Life Without Papers. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lay, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson and Lovley, 2000; Lay, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Anderson and Lovley, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Quattrocchi et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of the ICRP
Abbreviation	Ann. ICRP
ISSN (print)	0146-6453
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology