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

Wine JJ. 2014. Medicine. Letting go of mucus. Science. 345(6198):730–731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao X, Wang K. 2014. Strength of stick-slip and creeping subduction megathrusts from heat flow observations. Science. 345(6200):1038–1041.

A journal article with 3 authors

Viswanathan SR, Daley GQ, Gregory RI. 2008. Selective blockade of microRNA processing by Lin28. Science. 320(5872):97–100.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Alexander DM, Smail I, Bauer FE, Chapman SC, Blain AW, Brandt WN, Ivison RJ. 2005. Rapid growth of black holes in massive star-forming galaxies. Nature. 434(7034):738–740.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padilla E. 2015. Substation Automation Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Atallah MJ, Hopper NJ, editors. 2010. Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 10th International Symposium, PETS 2010, Berlin, Germany, July 21-23, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Anisimov MA. 2007. Coupled ordering in soft matter: competition of mesoscales and dynamics of coupled fluctuations. In: Rzoska SJ, Mazur VA, editors. Soft Matter under Exogenic Impacts. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; p. 75–90.

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

Davis J. 2015. FDA Approves First 3D-Printed Drug. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fda-approves-first-3d-printed-drug/

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. 1973. Corrections and Pretrial Diversion Projects Funded by Grants From LEAA. 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

Glassett Farrelly S. 2013. Understanding Alternative Education: A Mixed Methods Examination of Student Experiences [Doctoral dissertation]. La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Chira S, Martin J. 2017. Marchers Map Out Next Steps. New York Times.:A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wine 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Wine 2014; Gao and Wang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gao and Wang 2014)
Three or more authors: (Alexander et al. 2005)

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