How to format your references using the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Kump LR. Reducing uncertainty about carbon dioxide as a climate driver. Nature 2002;419:188–90.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Poggio T, Bizzi E. Generalization in vision and motor control. Nature 2004;431:768–74.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wagner DE, Wang IE, Reddien PW. Clonogenic neoblasts are pluripotent adult stem cells that underlie planarian regeneration. Science 2011;332:811–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Amonlirdviman K, Khare NA, Tree DRP, Chen W-S, Axelrod JD, Tomlin CJ. Mathematical modeling of planar cell polarity to understand domineering nonautonomy. Science 2005;307:423–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Evans AW. Economics, Real Estate and the Supply of Land. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Gerlee P. Scientific Models: Red Atoms, White Lies and Black Boxes in a Yellow Book. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wolter SC. Purpose and Limits of a National Monitoring of the Education System Through Indicators. In: Soguel NC, Jaccard P, editors. Governance and Performance of Education Systems, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 57–84.

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 Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Your Boss Could Be Spying On You Using This Device. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/your-boss-could-be-spying-on-you-using-this-device/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Students with Disabilities: Better Federal Coordination Could Lessen Challenges in the Transition from High School. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shaw RM. The influence of organizational culture on employee attitudes towards information security policy. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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

[1]

Stewart JB. Fossil Fuel Stocks Divide a Village. New York Times 2016:B1.

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 Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Abbreviation	J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf.
ISSN (print)	0022-4073
Scope	Spectroscopy Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics Radiation