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. Lang T. Advancing global health research through digital technology and sharing data. Science. 2011;331:714–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jagoutz O, Behn MD. Foundering of lower island-arc crust as an explanation for the origin of the continental Moho. Nature. 2013;504:131–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Helle S, Lummaa V, Jokela J. Sons reduced maternal longevity in preindustrial humans. Science. 2002;296:1085.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li W, Zhou X, Lock R, Patchkovskii S, Stolow A, Kapteyn HC, et al. Time-resolved dynamics in N2O4 probed using high harmonic generation. Science. 2008;322:1207–11.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Zirngibl L. Antifungal Azoles. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Wang F, editor. Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems - FORTE 2005: 25th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2-5, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Moot R, Retoré C. The Multimodal Lambek Calculus. In: Retoré C, editor. The Logic of Categorial Grammars: A Deductive Account of Natural Language Syntax and Semantics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 149–91.

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. Hale T. These Maps Show The Most Popular Porn Searches In Each US State [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/these-maps-show-the-most-popular-porn-searches-in-each-us-state/

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. Planning Procedures for Computer Resources in the Department of the Interior. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Aug. Report No.: FGMSD-77-68.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Reece JK. Reservoir Facies Analysis of Middle Miocene Turbidites in Marlin, Dorado, and Nile Fields; Viosca Knoll, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Vecsey G. Backman Is Poised On Top Step of the Dugout. New York Times. 2010 Aug 4;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	Current Radiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Radiol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-4825
Scope