How to format your references using the Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology. 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]

Rees M. Time for global statistics we can count on. Nature 2013;502:273.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kuo SC, McGrath JL. Steps and fluctuations of Listeria monocytogenes during actin-based motility. Nature 2000;407:1026–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wittkopp PJ, Haerum BK, Clark AG. Evolutionary changes in cis and trans gene regulation. Nature 2004;430:85–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kabarowski JH, Zhu K, Le LQ, Witte ON, Xu Y. Lysophosphatidylcholine as a ligand for the immunoregulatory receptor G2A. Science 2001;293:702–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Murdoch I, Turpin S, Johnston B, MacLullich A, Losman E. Geriatric Emergencies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Lucchese M, Scopinaro N, editors. Minimally Invasive Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery: Principles and Technical Aspects. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Torres A, Cillóniz C. Methods for preventing pneumonia. In: Cillóniz C, editor. Clinical Management of Bacterial Pneumonia, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 57–73.

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 Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. This Awkward Feathered Dinosaur Was Almost Blown Up By Dynamite. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/awkward-feathered-dinosaur-almost-blown-up-dynamite/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: VA and DOD Are Making Progress in Sharing Medical Information, but Are Far from Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nelson T. Project Motherhood: A Grant Proposal Project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Poniewozik J. When There’s Nothing Like a Good Cry. New York Times 2016:C1.

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	Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology
Abbreviation	Phys. Imaging Radiat. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	2405-6316
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