How to format your references using the Medical Dosimetry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medical Dosimetry (MDO). 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

Gibson, V.C. Chemistry. Shuttling polyolefins to a new materials dimension. Science 312(5774):703–4; 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

Whorton, M.R.; MacKinnon, R. X-ray structure of the mammalian GIRK2-βγ G-protein complex. Nature 498(7453):190–7; 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Buhr, E.D.; Yoo, S.-H.; Takahashi, J.S. Temperature as a universal resetting cue for mammalian circadian oscillators. Science 330(6002):379–85; 2010.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Berl, V.; Huc, I.; Khoury, R.G.; et al. Interconversion of single and double helices formed from synthetic molecular strands. Nature 407(6805):720–3; 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saint-Dizier, P. Musical Rhetoric. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Naidich, T.P. Duvernoy’s Atlas of the Human Brain Stem and Cerebellum: High-Field MRI: Surface Anatomy, Internal Structure, Vascularization and 3D Sectional Anatomy. Vienna: Springer.; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Williams, K.; March, L.; Wassell, S.R. Leon Battista Alberti, De lunularum quadratura. In: Williams, K., March, L., and Wassell, S.R., editors. The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti; Basel: Springer; 2010: 201–12.

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 Medical Dosimetry.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. Why Is The Sun Blank? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-is-the-sun-blank/. Accessed October 30, 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 Transportation Security Information Sharing: Results of GAO’s Survey of Stakeholder Satisfaction with TSA Products and Mechanisms (GAO-14-488SP, June 2014), an E-supplement to GAO-14-506. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dill, K.D. Nonparametric alternative to Poly-k test in animal tumorigenicity studies. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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

Brantley, B. Fixing What Ain’t Broken. New York Times:C1; 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Medical Dosimetry
Abbreviation	Med. Dosim.
ISSN (print)	0958-3947
ISSN (online)	1873-4022
Scope	Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology