How to format your references using the Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences. 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

Cairns, B. R. (2009). The logic of chromatin architecture and remodelling at promoters. Nature, 461(7261), 193–198.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez, L. M., & Angell, C. A. (2001). A thermodynamic connection to the fragility of glass-forming liquids. Nature, 410(6829), 663–667.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hattori, Y., Tomonaga, M., & Matsuzawa, T. (2013). Spontaneous synchronized tapping to an auditory rhythm in a chimpanzee. Scientific Reports, 3, 1566.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Knox, K., Carrigan, D., Simmons, G., Teque, F., Zhou, Y., Hackett, J., Jr, Qiu, X., Luk, K.-C., Schochetman, G., Knox, A., Kogelnik, A. M., & Levy, J. A. (2011). No evidence of murine-like gammaretroviruses in CFS patients previously identified as XMRV-infected. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6038), 94–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaseghi, S. V. (2006). Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Vauthey, J.-N., & Brouquet, A. (Eds.). (2013). Multidisciplinary Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Vol. 190). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Alaniz, J. (2016). Standing Orders: Oracle, Disability, and Retconning. In C. Foss, J. W. Gray, & Z. Whalen (Eds.), Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives (pp. 59–79). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

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 Radiation Research and Applied Sciences.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, August 8). Watch A Bald Eagle Snatch A Baby Osprey From Its Nest. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-a-bald-eagle-snatch-a-baby-osprey-from-its-nest/

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. (1974). Improvement Needed In Documenting Computer Systems (B-115369). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Julian, A. (2017). Guided Autobiography Themes for Older Adult United States War Veterans [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Williams, J. (2016, September 18). If It Ain’t Broke. New York Times, BR6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cairns, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cairns, 2009; Martinez & Angell, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Martinez & Angell, 2001)
Three authors: (Hattori et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Knox et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences
ISSN (print)	1687-8507
Scope