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

Bosch X. Spanish postgrads push for better employment rights. Nature 2000; 405(6788): 723.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miles L, Kapos V. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: global land-use implications. Science 2008; 320(5882): 1454–1455.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buck WR, Lavier LL, Poliakov ANB. Modes of faulting at mid-ocean ridges. Nature 2005; 434(7034): 719–723.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chelton DB, Schlax MG, Freilich MH, Milliff RF. Satellite measurements reveal persistent small-scale features in ocean winds. Science 2004; 303(5660): 978–983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinsen U. Kostenrechnung in der Bauwirtschaft (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2017).

An edited book

Yen EH, Leonard AR, eds. Nutrition in Cystic Fibrosis: A Guide for Clinicians, 1st ed. 2015 (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

White PJ, Lomotan E. Evidence Based Health Care, in Clinical Informatics Study Guide: Text and Review, edited by J.T. Finnell and B.E. Dixon (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016), pp. 101–109.

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

Luntz S. “The Beast” Asteroid Tracked As It Passed Earth By. IFLScience 2014;

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. Radiation Exposure from Diagnostic X-Rays Could Be Reduced (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reyes JM. A support group for adults with rheumatoid arthritis (Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010).

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

Vecsey G. Back to Brooklyn for a U.S. Eagle. New York Times 2011; SP10.

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