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

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

Haase, A. T. (2010). Nature 464, 217–223.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sykes, M. & Nikolic, B. (2005). Nature 435, 620–627.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holmberg, V. C., Panthani, M. G. & Korgel, B. A. (2009). Science 326, 405–407.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, K., Doi, A., Wen, B., Ng, K., Zhao, R., Cahan, P., Kim, J., Aryee, M. J., Ji, H., Ehrlich, L. I. R., Yabuuchi, A., Takeuchi, A., Cunniff, K. C., Hongguang, H., McKinney-Freeman, S., Naveiras, O., Yoon, T. J., Irizarry, R. A., Jung, N., Seita, J., Hanna, J., Murakami, P., Jaenisch, R., Weissleder, R., Orkin, S. H., Weissman, I. L., Feinberg, A. P. & Daley, G. Q. (2010). Nature 467, 285–290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sundar, V. (2015). Ocean Wave Mechanics Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Eichelsbacher, P., Elsner, G., Kösters, H., Löwe, M., Merkl, F. & Rolles, S. (2013). Limit Theorems in Probability, Statistics and Number Theory: In Honor of Friedrich Götze Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kriglstein, S., Brown, R. & Wallner, G. (2014). Vol. Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2014: 13th International Conference, ICEC 2014, Sydney, Australia, October 1-3, 2014. Proceedings, edited by Y. Pisan, N. M. Sgouros & T. Marsh. pp. 36–41. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Synchrotron Radiation.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/mystery-superluminous-supernova-solved/.

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 (1986). Data Processing: SBA Needs To Strengthen Management of Its Computer Systems 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

Li, L. (2012). Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Rothenberg, B. (2016). New York Times SP8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Haase, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Haase, 2010; Sykes & Nikolic, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sykes & Nikolic, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Abbreviation	J. Synchrotron Radiat.
ISSN (online)	1600-5775
Scope	Instrumentation Nuclear and High Energy Physics Radiation