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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Radiation Research. 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. Xu P. Eppendorf 2005 winner. A Drosophila OBP required for pheromone signaling. Science 2005;310:798–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Arinaminpathy N, Dowdy D. Understanding the incremental value of novel diagnostic tests for tuberculosis. Nature 2015;528:S60-7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Murdoch W, Briggs CJ, Swarbrick S. Host suppression and stability in a parasitoid-host system: experimental demonstration. Science 2005;309:610–3.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Dai D, Wang CC, Harich SA et al. Interference of quantized transition-state pathways in the H + D2 -> D + HD chemical reaction. Science 2003;300:1730–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. P. Wen E, Ellis R, S. Pujar N. Vaccine Development and Manufacturing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

1. Hustinx L, von Essen J, Haers J et al. eds. Religion and Volunteering: Complex, Contested and Ambiguous Relationships. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pedrini LA. Techniques and Kinetics of Hemodiafiltration. In: Azar AT (ed.). Modeling and Control of Dialysis Systems: Volume 2: Biofeedback Systems and Soft Computing Techniques of Dialysis. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, 1011–78.

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.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Men’s Magazine Prints Editions Using HIV-Infected Blood To Tackle Stigma. 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. Olympic Security: Better Planning Can Enhance U.S. Support to Future Olympic Games. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Powell FM. A study of the effects of nanoparticle modification on the thermal, mechanical and hygrothermal performance of carbon/vinyl ester composites. 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. 2016’s Top Investors Offer Their Insights Into the Year Ahead. New York Times. January 5, 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 Radiation Research
Abbreviation	J. Radiat. Res.
ISSN (print)	0449-3060
ISSN (online)	1349-9157
Scope	Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiation