How to format your references using the Radiation Measurements citation style

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

Kawaler, S.D., 2003. Astronomy. Taking the pulse of a massive star. Science 300, 1885–1886.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao, L., Theuns, T., 2007. Lighting the universe with filaments. Science 317, 1527–1530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fournier, A.E., GrandPre, T., Strittmatter, S.M., 2001. Identification of a receptor mediating Nogo-66 inhibition of axonal regeneration. Nature 409, 341–346.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, J., Green, H.W., Bozhilov, K., Jin, Z., 2004. Faulting induced by precipitation of water at grain boundaries in hot subducting oceanic crust. Nature 428, 633–636.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens, H., 2012. Applied Building Physics. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.

An edited book

Goldade, V.A., 2005. Plastics for Corrosion Inhibition, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, C.-C., Hervé, J.M., 2012. A Discontinuously Movable Constant Velocity Shaft Coupling of Koenigs Joint Type, in: Dai, J.S., Zoppi, M., Kong, X. (Eds.), Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots I. Springer, London, pp. 35–43.

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 Radiation Measurements.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. These Bees Pulled Strings To Prove They Can Learn And Share New Skills [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1994. Army Aviation: Modernization Strategy Needs to Be Reassessed (No. NSIAD-95-9). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bremond, D.S., 2017. When women win: Prominent leadership traits that contributed to the successful election of women in California (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2008. State Tax Break Is Upheld For Municipal Bonds. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kawaler, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gao and Theuns, 2007; Kawaler, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Gao and Theuns, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Radiation Measurements
Abbreviation	Radiat. Meas.
ISSN (print)	1350-4487
Scope	Instrumentation Radiation