How to format your references using the Radiation Physics and Chemistry citation style

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

A’Hearn, M.F., 2006. Whence comets? Science 314, 1708–1709.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andrew, P., Barnes, W.L., 2004. Energy transfer across a metal film mediated by surface plasmon polaritons. Science 306, 1002–1005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wise, C., Pawlyn, M., Braungart, M., 2013. Eco-engineering: Living in a materials world. Nature 494, 172–175.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vandergoes, M.J., Newnham, R.M., Preusser, F., Hendy, C.H., Lowell, T.V., Fitzsimons, S.J., Hogg, A.G., Kasper, H.U., Schlüchter, C., 2005. Regional insolation forcing of late Quaternary climate change in the Southern Hemisphere. Nature 436, 242–245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogers, E.F., Jr, 2013. Aquinas and the Supreme Court. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Fischer, X., 2011. Research in Interactive Design Vol. 3: Virtual, Interactive and Integrated Product Design and Manufacturing for Industrial Innovation. Springer, Paris.

A chapter in an edited book

Zviadadze, S., 2015. Georgian Orthodox Church and Human Rights: Challenges to Georgian Society, in: Ziebertz, H.-G., Črpić, G. (Eds.), Religion and Human Rights: An International Perspective. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–60.

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 Physics and Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. A Hidden Code In Our DNA Explains How New Pieces Of Genes Are Made [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, 1991. Air Traffic Control: Software Problems at Control Centers Need Immediate Attention (No. IMTEC-92-1). 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

Meluzzi, D., 2013. Computational Analysis of DNA Interactions to Investigate the Spatial Organization of Chromatin (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Gillis, J., 2017. For Third Year, the Earth in 2016 Set Heat Record. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (A’Hearn, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (A’Hearn, 2006; Andrew and Barnes, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Andrew and Barnes, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Vandergoes et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Radiation Physics and Chemistry
Abbreviation	Radiat. Phys. Chem. Oxf. Engl. 1993
ISSN (print)	0969-806X
Scope	Radiation