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]

Gitler A D 2011 Neuroscience. Another reason to exercise Science 334 606–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O’Brien S J and Murphy W J 2003 Genomics. A dog’s breakfast? Science 301 1854–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bourgeois C, Rocha B and Tanchot C 2002 A role for CD40 expression on CD8+ T cells in the generation of CD8+ T cell memory Science 297 2060–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Wang X, Chen H, Yin H, Kim S S, Lin Tan S and Gosden R G 2002 Fertility after intact ovary transplantation Nature 415 385

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Egan W F 2011 Advanced Frequency Synthesis by Phase Lock (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Webb S D 2006 First Floridians and Last Mastodons: The Page-Ladson Site in the Aucilla River (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Costantini A, Gutierrez E, Cacheiro J L, Rodriguez A, Gervasi O and Laganà A 2010 Porting of GROMACS Package into the Grid Environment: Testing of a New Distribution Strategy Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2010: International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, March 23-26, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed D Taniar, O Gervasi, B Murgante, E Pardede and B O Apduhan (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 41–52

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]

Andrew E 2013 Kepler Space Telescope Discovers More Potentially Habitable Planets 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 1995 Higher Education: Selected Information on Student Financial Aid Received by Legal Immigrants (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]

Chen A P 2008 An efficient algorithm for calculating fluctuation field and simulating the thermal magnetic aftereffect Doctoral dissertation (Washington, DC: 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

[1]

Grynbaum M M and Koblin J 2016 Fox Settles Sex Harassment Suit as Another Host Abruptly Exits New York Times A1

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