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]

Hoffman S. Save the children. Nature 2004;430:940–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kilpivaara O, Aaltonen LA. Diagnostic cancer genome sequencing and the contribution of germline variants. Science 2013;339:1559–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Luo J, Shen L, Zheng D. Association between vitamin C intake and lung cancer: a dose-response meta-analysis. Sci Rep 2014;4:6161.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Da Mesquita S, Louveau A, Vaccari A, Smirnov I, Cornelison RC, Kingsmore KM, et al. Functional aspects of meningeal lymphatics in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 2018;560:185–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Heiberger RM. Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Kelley MW, Wu DK, Popper AN, Fay RR, editors. Development of the Inner Ear. vol. 26. New York, NY: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Arieli O, Avron A. Three-Valued Paraconsistent Propositional Logics. In: Beziau J-Y, Chakraborty M, Dutta S, editors. New Directions in Paraconsistent Logic: 5th WCP, Kolkata, India, February 2014, New Delhi: Springer India; 2015, p. 91–129.

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]

Carpineti A. Planets Might Not Always Be Hiding In Disk Gaps Seen Around Young Stars. IFLScience 2015.

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. Armored Systems Modernization: Program Inconsistent With Current Threat and Budgetary Constraints. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Paredes J. Critical Support for Central American Newcomer Youth and Schooling in One Southern California High School. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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. Tax Cuts for Everybody, and Responsibility for Nobody. New York Times 2017: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