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. Jungkind D. Tech.Sight. Molecular testing for infectious disease. Science 2001;294:1553–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pacala S, Socolow R. Stabilization wedges: solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies. Science 2004;305:968–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tenenbaum JB, de Silva V, Langford JC. A global geometric framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Science 2000;290:2319–23.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Chen T, Wang J, Li C et al. Nafamostat mesilate attenuates neuronal damage in a rat model of transient focal cerebral ischemia through thrombin inhibition. Sci Rep 2014;4:5531.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Szeman I, O’Brien S. Popular Culture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

1. Trobaugh JJ. Winning LEGO MINDSTORMS Programming. Lowe M (ed.). Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ahn G-O, Brown JM. Combinations of Hypoxia-Targeting Compounds and Radiation-Activated Prodrugs with Ionizing Radiation. In: Brown JM, Mehta MP, Nieder C (eds.). Multimodal Concepts for Integration of Cytotoxic Drugs. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006, 67–91.

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. Researchers Use Gene Editing To Mimic A Mutation That Confers HIV Resistance In The Lab. IFLScience 2014.

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. The Treasury Financial Communications System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cho Y. Chinese restaurant business and Taiwanese pentecostalism in Southern California. 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

1. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Anti-Semitic Violence. New York Times. May 29, 2002:A10.

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