How to format your references using the International Journal of Radiation Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Radiation Biology. 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

Goldstein L. 2012. US election: Know your representatives. Nature. 489(7417):494–495.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burke JM, Rieseberg LH. 2003. Fitness effects of transgenic disease resistance in sunflowers. Science. 300(5623):1250.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chin G, Marathe T, Roberts L. 2011. Population. Doom or vroom? Introduction. Science. 333(6042):538–539.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Krot AN, Meibom A, Russell SS, Alexander CM, Jeffries TE, Keil K. 2001. A new astrophysical setting for chondrule formation. Science. 291(5509):1776–1779.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hasslacher C, Böhm S. 2005. Diabetes and the Kidney. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Sasaki K, Suzuki O, Takahashi N, editors. 2012. Interface Oral Health Science 2011. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Pfeiffer S, Green T. 2015. Accessibility, Internationalization, and Navigation. In: Green T, editor. Beginning HTML5 Media: Make the most of the new video and audio standards for the Web. Berkeley, CA: Apress; p. 129–189.

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 International Journal of Radiation Biology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Study Reveals Half of Americans Buy Into Medical Conspiracy Theories. IFLScience.

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

Government Accountability Office. 1974. Head Start Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ritter D. 2008. The EU and conflict: Critically assessing the success of the ESDP and its impact in conflict areas [Doctoral dissertation]. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Werdigier J. 2008. BP Says Talks With Venture Investors Continue. New York Times.:C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Goldstein 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Burke and Rieseberg 2003; Goldstein 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Burke and Rieseberg 2003)
Three or more authors: (Krot et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Radiation Biology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Radiat. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0955-3002
ISSN (online)	1362-3095
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology