How to format your references using the Journal of Radiological Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Radiological Protection. 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

[1]

Leutgeb S 2008 Neuroscience. Detailed differences Science 319 1623–4

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Purugganan M D and Fuller D Q 2009 The nature of selection during plant domestication Nature 457 843–8

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bielawski C W, Benitez D and Grubbs R H 2002 An “endless” route to cyclic polymers Science 297 2041–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Iwasawa H, Yoshida Y, Hase I, Shimada K, Namatame H, Taniguchi M and Aiura Y 2013 “True” bosonic coupling strength in strongly correlated superconductors Sci. Rep. 3 1930

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lemberger P and Morel M 2012 Managing Complexity of Information Systems (Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Ramasami P, Gupta Bhowon M, Jhaumeer Laulloo S and Li Kam Wah H 2016 Crystallizing Ideas – The Role of Chemistry (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Marek T and Krejcar O 2015 Optimization of 3D Rendering in Mobile Devices Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems: 12th International Conference, MobiWis 2015, Rome, Italy, August 24-26, 2015, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed M Younas, I Awan and M Mecella (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 37–48

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 Radiological Protection.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S 2014 Newly Discovered Plant “Eats” Heavy Metal IFLScience

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 1997 Transportation Financing: Challenges in Meeting Long-Term Funding Needs for FAA, Amtrak, and the Nation’s Highways (Washington, DC: 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

[1]

Romanek J L 2009 The relative influence of sensation seeking and normal narcissism on academic cheating in emerging adults Doctoral dissertation (Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

[1]

Ivory D and Ruiz R R 2014 G.M. Resists Expanding Victims’ Fund New York Times 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 Radiological Protection
Abbreviation	J. Radiol. Prot.
ISSN (print)	0952-4746
ISSN (online)	1361-6498
Scope	Waste Management and Disposal General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health