How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 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

Ensslin TA. Astronomy. Radio traces of cosmic shock waves. Science 2006; 314(5800): 772–773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Howard JAK, Probert MR. Cutting-edge techniques used for the structural investigation of single crystals. Science 2014; 343(6175): 1098–1102.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dickie IA, Hurst JM, Bellingham PJ. Comment on “Conspecific negative density dependence and forest diversity.” Science 2012; 338(6106): 469; author reply 469.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jones KE, Patel NG, Levy MA, et al. Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature 2008; 451(7181): 990–993.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Foote M, Hillier J, Mitchell-Wallace K, Jones M. Natural catastrophe risk management and modelling (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2017).

An edited book

Kpodonu J, Haulon S, eds. Atlas of Advanced Endoaortic Surgery (Springer, London, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Deveaud R, SanJuan E, Bellot P. Social Recommendation and External Resources for Book Search, in Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure: 10th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, edited by S. Geva, J. Kamps and R. Schenkel (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012), pp. 68–79.

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 Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.

Blog post

Carpineti A. A Potential Dark Matter Signature Has Been Seen in The Andromeda Galaxy. IFLScience 2017;

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. Indian Affairs: Actions Needed to Better Manage Indian School Construction Projects (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adrian DE. School scheduling models and the achievement of at-risk students: A causal-comparative study (Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2009).

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

Murphy MJO. An Early Admirer of ‘Star Wars.’ New York Times 2015; C32.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1526-9914
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Instrumentation Radiation