How to format your references using the Brachytherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brachytherapy. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
Tauris TM. Spin-down of radio millisecond pulsars at genesis. Science 2012;335:561–563.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Bloom K, Joglekar A. Towards building a chromosome segregation machine. Nature 2010;463:446–456.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Shapiro JH, Venkatraman D, Wong FNC. Ghost imaging without discord. Sci Rep 2013;3:1849.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Duprat J, Dobrică E, Engrand C, et al. Extreme deuterium excesses in ultracarbonaceous micrometeorites from central Antarctic snow. Science 2010;328:742–745.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Olofsson P. Probabilities. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.
An edited book
[1]
Devlin WJ, Bokulich A, editors. Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On. Vol 311. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Clerbout N, Rahman S. Building a Winning $$\mathbf {P}$$ P -strategy Out of a CTT Demonstration. In: Rahman S, editor. Linking Game-Theoretical Approaches with Constructive Type Theory: Dialogical Strategies, CTT Demonstrations and the Axiom of Choice. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 87–96.

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 Brachytherapy.

Blog post
[1]
O`Callaghan J. Scientists Make “Surprising” Discovery On Comet 67P. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/surprising-discovery-molecular-oxygen-comet-67p-hints-new-theory-solar-system-formation/. Accessed October 30, 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
[1]
Government Accountability Office. Actions Taken or Needed To Curb Widespread Abuse of the Citizens Band Radio Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Nguyen LL. Pacific Psychiatric Group: A Business Plan For a Direct Pay Outpatient Psychiatric Practice. 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
[1]
Burghardt LF. The Legacies They Left. New York Times. January 1, 2006:14LI7.

In-text citations

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

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 titleBrachytherapy
AbbreviationBrachytherapy
ISSN (print)1538-4721
ISSN (online)1873-1449
ScopeOncology
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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