How to format your references using the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal. 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

[1]

Koentges G. Journal club. A genomic systems biologist muses on how shared DNA mistakes reveal shared cellular ancestry. Nature 2010;467:255.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Petronczki M, Uhlmann F. Cell biology. ESCRTing DNA at the cleavage site during cytokinesis. Science 2012;336:166–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ma J, Wollmann R, Lindquist S. Neurotoxicity and neurodegeneration when PrP accumulates in the cytosol. Science 2002;298:1781–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yun B-W, Feechan A, Yin M, Saidi NBB, Le Bihan T, Yu M, et al. S-nitrosylation of NADPH oxidase regulates cell death in plant immunity. Nature 2011;478:264–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stanoyevitch A. Introduction to Numerical Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations Using MATLAB®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

García-Cintado A. Spanish Regional Unemployment: Disentangling the Sources of Hysteresis. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bubalo J. Conditioning Regimens. In: Maziarz RT, Slater S, editors. Blood and Marrow Transplant Handbook: Comprehensive Guide for Patient Care, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 39–49.

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 Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. The Tragic Story Of Soviet Genetics Shows The Folly Of Political Meddling In Science. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-tragic-story-of-soviet-genetics-shows-the-folly-of-political-meddling-in-science/ (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. Assessment of the Teacher Corps Program at Western Carolina University and Participating Schools in North Carolina. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Baxter JM. Enantioselective Mannich-type Reactions Promoted by Strained Silane Lewis Acids: Selective Generation of Two Contiguous Stereocenters and Entry into a Novel Class of Pyrrolidines. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2010.

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]

Wagner J. New Routine Becomes an Exercise in Bonding: Stretch, Share, Hug. New York Times 2017:B12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal
Abbreviation	Can. Assoc. Radiol. J.
ISSN (print)	0846-5371
Scope	General Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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