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

Smaglik P. 2005. Guiding hands. Nature. 434(7034):801.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tholl D, Gershenzon J. 2015. BIOCHEMISTRY. The flowering of a new scent pathway in rose. Science. 349(6243):28–29.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turk MJ, Abel T, O’Shea B. 2009. The formation of Population III binaries from cosmological initial conditions. Science. 325(5940):601–605.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Etchegaray J-P, Lee C, Wade PA, Reppert SM. 2003. Rhythmic histone acetylation underlies transcription in the mammalian circadian clock. Nature. 421(6919):177–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacobsson M, Niemegeers I, Heemstra de Groot S. 2010. Personal Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bartunek J, Vanderheyden M, editors. 2013. Translational Approach to Heart Failure. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Văduva S, Alistar VT, Thomas AR, Lupiţu CD, Neagoie DS. 2016. Management of Risks. In: Alistar VT, Thomas AR, Lupiţu CD, Neagoie DS, editors. Moral Leadership in Business: Towards a Business Culture of Integrity. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 77–92.

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

Carpineti A. 2016. Avalanches, Not Geysers, May Be The Cause Of Comet Outbursts. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/avalanches-not-geysers-may-be-the-cause-of-comet-outbursts/

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. 2015. Surface Transportation: DOT Is Progressing toward a Performance-Based Approach, but States and Grantees Report Potential Implementation Challenges. 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

Deshotel MW. 2017. Enhancing Undergraduate Water Resources Engineering Education Using Data and Modeling Resources Situated in Real-world Ecosystems: Design Principles and Challenges for Scaling and Sustainability [Doctoral dissertation]. Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Babcock L. 2008. Women, Repeat This: Don’t Ask, Don’t Get. New York Times.:BU19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2005; Tholl and Gershenzon 2015).

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

Two authors: (Tholl and Gershenzon 2015)
Three or more authors: (Etchegaray et al. 2003)

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