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

Shah, R. (2000). Nature. 404, 921.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zachariah, M. A. & Cyster, J. G. (2010). Science. 328, 1129–1135.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brockmann, D., Hufnagel, L. & Geisel, T. (2006). Nature. 439, 462–465.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xu, Z. A., Ong, N. P., Wang, Y., Kakeshita, T. & Uchida, S. (2000). Nature. 406, 486–488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kitai, A. (2011). Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Diodes: The role of the PN junction Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

(2015). Operator Algebras and Mathematical Physics: 24th International Workshop in Operator Theory and its Applications, Bangalore, December 2013 Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Fisch, M. J. (2009). Supportive Care in Cancer Therapy, Vol. edited by D.S. Ettinger, pp. 87–107. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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

Andrew, D. (2017). 11 Key Findings From One Of The Most Comprehensive Reports Ever On The Health Effects Of Marijuana 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

Government Accountability Office (2008). Digital Television Transition: Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program Is Under Way, but Preparedness to Manage an Increase in Subsidy Demand Is Unclear 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

Blumenthal, P. M. (2014). Local Land Use Regulatory Regimes and Residential Development Outcomes: An Analysis of Subdivision Review in Four Counties in the DC Region. 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

Dudziak, M. L. (2016). New York Times. A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shah, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Shah, 2000; Zachariah & Cyster, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zachariah & Cyster, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al., 2000)

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

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