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

Berendsen HJ. Bioinformatics. Reality simulation--observe while it happens. Science 2001; 294(5550): 2304–2305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Collins S, Bell G. Phenotypic consequences of 1,000 generations of selection at elevated CO2 in a green alga. Nature 2004; 431(7008): 566–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oye KA, Lawson JCH, Bubela T. Drugs: Regulate “home-brew” opiates. Nature 2015; 521(7552): 281–283.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Slanger TG, Cosby PC, Huestis DL, Bida TA. Discovery of the atomic oxygen green line in the Venus night airglow. Science 2001; 291(5503): 463–465.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olsen D. The Lean Product Playbook (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015).

An edited book

Dwivedi YK, Mäntymäki M, Ravishankar MN, et al., eds. Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2016, Swansea, UK, September 13–15, 2016, Proceedings (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Reddy PJ, Gollapalli K, Ghantasala S, et al. Basics of Mass Spectrometry and Its Applications in Biomarker Discovery, in Biomarker Discovery in the Developing World: Dissecting the Pipeline for Meeting the Challenges, edited by S. Srivastava (Springer India, New Delhi, 2016), pp. 41–63.

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

Andrew D. Elon Musk Is About To Test The “Trickiest” Part Of His Mars Spaceship — A Giant, Potentially Explosive Black Orb. IFLScience 2016;

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. Customs Service Modernization: Architecture Must Be Complete and Enforced to Effectively Build and Maintain Systems (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harris NS. The Impact of Action Learning Experience on Reflective Practice (Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2012).

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

Gurley G. That Extra Mile for Love. New York Times 2015; D1.

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