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

Crommie, M.F., 2005. Physics. Manipulating magnetism in a single molecule. Science 309, 1501–1502.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suarez, R.K., Jones, D.R., 2002. Obituary: Peter W. Hochachka (1937-2002). Nature 420, 140.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schuck, C., Pernice, W.H.P., Tang, H.X., 2013. Waveguide integrated low noise NbTiN nanowire single-photon detectors with milli-Hz dark count rate. Sci. Rep. 3, 1893.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fischer, T.P., Hilton, D.R., Zimmer, M.M., Shaw, A.M., Sharp, Z.D., Walker, J.A., 2002. Subduction and recycling of nitrogen along the Central American margin. Science 297, 1154–1157.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tolin, D.F., Worden, B.L., Wootton, B.M., Gilliam, C.M., 2017. CBT for Hoarding Disorder. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ritacco, L.E., Milano, F.E., Chao, E. (Eds.), 2016. Computer-Assisted Musculoskeletal Surgery: Thinking and Executing in 3D, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kozera, R., Noakes, L., Szmielew, P., 2014. Length Estimation for Exponential Parameterization and ε-Uniform Samplings, in: Huang, F., Sugimoto, A. (Eds.), Image and Video Technology – PSIVT 2013 Workshops: GCCV 2013, GPID 2013, PAESNPR 2013, and QACIVA 2013, Guanajuato, Mexico, October 28-29, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–46.

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. National Geographic Changed Its Maps To Reflect The Effects Of Climate Change In The Arctic [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/national-geographic-announces-change-its-maps-reflect-climate-change/ (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, 2008. Inspectors General: Actions Needed to Improve Audit Coverage of NASA (No. GAO-09-88). 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

Boyle, L.L., 2014. Relationship between managerial responsiveness, managerial approachability, and prosocial voice among acute-care registered nurses (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

Eisinger, J., 2014. The Fall Guy. New York Times MM34.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crommie, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Crommie, 2005; Suarez and Jones, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Suarez and Jones, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Fischer et al., 2002)

About the journal

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

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