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

Morrison P. 2001. Tales behind the tags. Nature. 413(6855):461.

A journal article with 2 authors

Caffrey DR, Fitzgerald KA. 2012. Immunology. Select inflammasome assembly. Science. 336(6080):420–421.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gregg MC, Sanford TB, Winkel DP. 2003. Reduced mixing from the breaking of internal waves in equatorial waters. Nature. 422(6931):513–515.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Sun W, Tanaka TQ, Magle CT, Huang W, Southall N, Huang R, Dehdashti SJ, McKew JC, Williamson KC, Zheng W. 2014. Chemical signatures and new drug targets for gametocytocidal drug development. Sci Rep. 4:3743.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jeong H. 2014. Architectures for Computer Vision. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rhim JS, Kremer R, editors. 2012. Human Cell Transformation: Role of Stem Cells and the Microenvironment. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tsikalas F, Faleide JI, Werner SC, Torsvik T, Gudlaugsson ST, Eldholm O. 2011. Impact Geophysics and Modelling. In: Tsikalas F, Dypvik H, Smelror M, editors. The Mjølnir Impact Event and its Consequences: Geology and Geophysics of a Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous Marine Impact Event. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 75–137.

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

Hamilton K. 2016. Health Check: Which Fruits Are Healthier, And In What Form? IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/health-check-which-fruits-are-healthier-and-in-what-form/

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. 1975. Agricultural Attache Role Overseas: What He Does and How He Can Be More Effective for the United States. 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

Wall JD. 2017. The Effects of Acute L-Dopa on Brux-like and Masticatory Motor Patterns: EMG Phase Analysis in Rats [Doctoral dissertation]. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Barboza D. 2017. Chinese Group Reveals Shift Of Ownership To Foundation. New York Times.:B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morrison 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Morrison 2001; Caffrey and Fitzgerald 2012).

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

Two authors: (Caffrey and Fitzgerald 2012)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al. 2014)

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