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. Stajic J. Quantum information processing. The future of quantum information processing. Introduction. Science. 2013;339:1163.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. King M-C, Motulsky AG. Human genetics. Mapping human history. Science. 2002;298:2342–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schuck C, Pernice WHP, Tang HX. Waveguide integrated low noise NbTiN nanowire single-photon detectors with milli-Hz dark count rate. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1893.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Vitousek PM, Ladefoged TN, Kirch PV, Hartshorn AS, Graves MW, Hotchkiss SC, et al. Soils, agriculture, and society in precontact Hawai’i. Science. 2004;304:1665–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Weisberg HI. Willful Ignorance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Mangard S, Standaert F-X, editors. Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2010: 12th International Workshop, Santa Barbara, USA, August 17-20, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Falcocchio JC, Levinson HS. Concentration of Travel Demand in Space and Time. In: Levinson HS, editor. Road Traffic Congestion: A Concise Guide. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 39–51.

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 D. Mutilated Toucan Receives 3D-Printed Beak. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Project SAFECOM: Key Cross-Agency Emergency Communications Effort Requires Stronger Collaboration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Apr. Report No.: GAO-04-494.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mani V. Empirical study of link between operations and financial performance for retailers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2011.

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. Kelly DA. Trails, Trains and a Syrup House in Woodstock, Vt. New York Times. 2007 Jun 22;F8.

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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