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

Lee, V.M., 2001. Biomedicine. Tauists and beta-aptists united--well almost! Science 293, 1446–1447.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rutherford, A.W., Boussac, A., 2004. Biochemistry. Water photolysis in biology. Science 303, 1782–1784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Olveczky, B.P., Baccus, S.A., Meister, M., 2003. Segregation of object and background motion in the retina. Nature 423, 401–408.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ramírez, S.R., Gravendeel, B., Singer, R.B., Marshall, C.R., Pierce, N.E., 2007. Dating the origin of the Orchidaceae from a fossil orchid with its pollinator. Nature 448, 1042–1045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Potter, L., 2012. The Life of William Shakespeare. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lopaschuk, G.D., Dhalla, N.S. (Eds.), 2014. Cardiac Energy Metabolism in Health and Disease, Advances in Biochemistry in Health and Disease. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bourgain, J., Voiculescu, D.-V., 2016. The Essential Centre of the mod a Diagonalization Ideal Commutant of an n-tuple of Commuting Hermitian Operators, in: Alpay, D., Cipriani, F., Colombo, F., Guido, D., Sabadini, I., Sauvageot, J.-L. (Eds.), Noncommutative Analysis, Operator Theory and Applications, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 77–80.

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

Hamilton, K., 2017. Here Are The Ages You Peak At Everything Throughout Life [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, 2009. Briefing on Air Force’s Response on Fee-For-Service Aerial Refueling (No. GAO-10-124R). 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

Vande Voort, P.S., 2013. A phenomenological exploration of faculty experiences using lecture capture systems (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Barron, J., 2016. Famous for Its Past, a Small New Jersey Town Struggles to Define Its Future. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lee, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lee, 2001; Rutherford and Boussac, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Rutherford and Boussac, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ramírez et al., 2007)

About the journal

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