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

Collins, D., 2009. Misadventures in the Burgess Shale. Nature 460, 952–953.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yewdell, J.W., Ince, W.L., 2012. Virology. Frameshifting to PA-X influenza. Science 337, 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grantab, R., Shenoy, V.B., Ruoff, R.S., 2010. Anomalous strength characteristics of tilt grain boundaries in graphene. Science 330, 946–948.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Iriarte, J., Holst, I., Marozzi, O., Listopad, C., Alonso, E., Rinderknecht, A., Montaña, J., 2004. Evidence for cultivar adoption and emerging complexity during the mid-Holocene in the La Plata basin. Nature 432, 614–617.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauer, E., 2010. Design for Reliability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Björn, L.O. (Ed.), 2008. Photobiology: The Science of Life and Light, Second Edition. ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Platen, E., Bruti-Liberati, N., 2010. Stochastic Expansions, in: Bruti-Liberati, N. (Ed.), Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations with Jumps in Finance, Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 187–231.

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, E., 2015. What Happened To MH370? Prediction Markets Might Give Us The Answer [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-happened-mh370-prediction-markets-might-give-us-answer/ (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, 2006. No Child Left Behind Act: Assistance from Education Could Help States Better Measure Progress of Students with Limited English Proficiency (No. GAO-06-815). 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

Bishop-Randol, E., 2009. Outcomes of the Program of Assertive Community Treatment in Orange County, California (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Barnard, A., 2017. U.S. Coalition Munition Use Is Scrutinized In Syria. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Collins, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Collins, 2009; Yewdell and Ince, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Yewdell and Ince, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Iriarte et al., 2004)

About the journal

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