How to format your references using the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 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

Blank DA (2008) Chemistry. A sideways glance at chemical reactivity. Science 322:1056–1057

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahima RS, Lazar MA (2013) Physiology. The health risk of obesity--better metrics imperative. Science 341:856–858

A journal article with 3 authors

Rao CV, Wolf DM, Arkin AP (2002) Control, exploitation and tolerance of intracellular noise. Nature 420:231–237

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Contopoulos-Ioannidis DG, Alexiou GA, Gouvias TC, Ioannidis JPA (2008) Medicine. Life cycle of translational research for medical interventions. Science 321:1298–1299

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett DH (2013) Bennett’s Cardiac Arrhythmias. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford

An edited book

Hamblen JO (2006) Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems, QUARTUS® II EDITION. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Liang J, Wang Z, Liu X (2009) On Synchronization of Coupled Delayed Neural Networks. In: Kyamakya K, Halang WA, Unger H, et al (eds) Recent Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Synchronization: Theory and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 117–149

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 Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) Why Sad Songs Say So Much (To Some People, But Not Others). In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-sad-songs-say-so-much-to-some-people-but-not-others/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1995) DOD Dependents Schools: Enrollment Categories, Numbers, and Locations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tetley J (2009) An investigation of self-authorship, hope, and meaning in life among second-year college students. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Kishkovsky S, Herszenhorn DM (2012) Punk Band’s Moscow Trial Offers Platform for Orthodox Protesters. New York Times A11

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 Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0236-5731
ISSN (online)	1588-2780
Scope	Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Nuclear Energy and Engineering Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging