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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of 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

Couzin-Frankel J. A lonely crusade. Science 2014;344(6186):793–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gompel N, Carroll SB. Genetic mechanisms and constraints governing the evolution of correlated traits in drosophilid flies. Nature 2003;424(6951):931–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang Y, Forsyth DW, Savage B. Convective upwelling in the mantle beneath the Gulf of California. Nature 2009;462(7272):499–501.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yokoya T, Kiss T, Chainani A, Shin S, Nohara M, Takagi H. Fermi surface sheet-dependent superconductivity in 2H-NbSe2. Science 2001;294(5551):2518–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summerhayes SD. CDM Regulations 2015 Procedures Manual. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Tremmel J, editor. A Young Generation Under Pressure?: The Financial Situation and the “Rush Hour” of the Cohorts 1970–1985 in a Generational Comparison. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Snik F, Keller CU. Astronomical Polarimetry: Polarized Views of Stars and Planets. In: Oswalt TD, Bond HE, editors. Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 2: Astronomical Techniques, Software, and Data. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. page 175–221.

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 Medical Physics.

Blog post

Fang J. Greater Sage-Grouse Will Not Be Listed As Endangered. Can A Land-Use Plan Protect Them? [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/greater-sage-grouse-will-not-be-listed-endangered-can-land-use-plan-protect-them/

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. Army’s Contracting Out of Laundry and Educational Testing Services at Fort Carson, Colorado. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ma Y. Vesicular Stomatitis Virus as a Vector to Deliver Virus-Like Particles of Human Norovirus: A New Live Vectored Vaccine for Human Norovirus. 2013;

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. One Bowl That Counts And 34 Others. New York Times2010;B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Medical Physics
Abbreviation	J. Med. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0971-6203
ISSN (online)	1998-3913
Scope	Biophysics Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging