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:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Simmons RM. Prophets without honour? Nature 2000;407:839.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen WP, Brudzinski MR. Evidence for a large-scale remnant of subducted lithosphere beneath Fiji. Science 2001;292:2475–2479.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yan D, Zhou Y, Hou J. Supramolecular self-assembly of macroscopic tubes. Science 2004;303:65–67.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mali SS, Betty CA, Bhosale PN, Patil PS, Hong CK. From nanocorals to nanorods to nanoflowers nanoarchitecture for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells at relatively low film thickness: All Hydrothermal Process. Sci Rep 2014;4:5451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Woolf G. Tales of the Barbarians. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Galimberti D, Scarpini E, editors. Neurodegenerative Diseases: Clinical Aspects, Molecular Genetics and Biomarkers. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kersten GE. Are Procurement Auctions Good for Society and for Buyers? In: Zaraté P, Kersten GE, Hernández JE, editors. Group Decision and Negotiation. A Process-Oriented View: Joint INFORMS-GDN and EWG-DSS International Conference, GDN 2014, Toulouse, France, June 10-13, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 30–40.

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]

Andrew E. Robotic Exoskeleton Lifts 50 Kilos Per Hand. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-exoskeleton-lifts-50-kilos-hand/. 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. Federal Documents in Languages Other Than English Published and Distributed in Calendar Years 1995-1997. Washington, DC: 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

[1]

Chotkevys DL. A grounded theory study to explore how nurses overcome barriers to spiritual care. 2009.

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]

Swarns RL, Robertson C. Black Church Is Target Again for Deadly Strike at the Heart. New York Times. June 20, 2015:A1.

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 title	Brachytherapy
Abbreviation	Brachytherapy
ISSN (print)	1538-4721
ISSN (online)	1873-1449
Scope	Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging