How to format your references using the Current Radiology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Radiology Reports. 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. Wiseman H. Quantum physics: Death by experiment for local realism. Nature. 2015;526:649–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fitzgerald KA, Golenbock DT. Immunology. The shape of things to come. Science. 2007;316:1574–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Karlin S, Bergman A, Gentles AJ. Genomics. Annotation of the Drosophila genome. Nature. 2001;411:259–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fujita Y, Takeshita F, Mizutani T, Ohgi T, Kuwano K, Ochiya T. A novel platform to enable inhaled naked RNAi medicine for lung cancer. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Howe TR. Marriages & Families in the 21st Century. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Krüger R. Brand Growth Barriers: Identify, Understand, and Overcome Them. Stumpf A, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fernández-Jalvo Y, Andrews P. Pits and Perforations. In: Andrews P, editor. Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications: 1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Mammal Bone Modification. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016. p. 101–53.

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 Current Radiology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Doomsday Clock Moves Closer To Midnight, But Can We Really Predict The End Of The World? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/doomsday-clock-moves-closer-midnight-can-we-really-predict-end-world/

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. IT Dashboard: Agencies Are Managing Investment Risk, but Related Ratings Need to Be More Accurate and Available. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Dec. Report No.: GAO-14-64.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Choi Y. Three essays on econometrics [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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. Billard M. Walking in Paint-Spattered Footsteps. New York Times. 2014 Jan 16;E6.

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	Current Radiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Radiol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-4825
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