How to format your references using the RadioGraphics citation style

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

Tauris TM. Spin-down of radio millisecond pulsars at genesis. Science 2012;335(6068):561–563.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cho NW, Greenberg RA. DNA repair: Familiar ends with alternative endings. Nature 2015;518(7538):174–176.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tremblay S, Shiller DM, Ostry DJ. Somatosensory basis of speech production. Nature 2003;423(6942):866–869.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ranz JM, Castillo-Davis CI, Meiklejohn CD, Hartl DL. Sex-dependent gene expression and evolution of the Drosophila transcriptome. Science 2003;300(5626):1742–1745.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner D. A History of Modern Drama. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Hartlep ND, Hayes C, editors. Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Lakshmikantham V, Leela S, Martynyuk AA. Stability In The Models of Real World Phenomena. In: Leela S, Martynyuk AA, editors. Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 253–309.

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 RadioGraphics.

Blog post

Fang J. Earliest Eskimos Mysteriously Vanished 700 Years Ago [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earliest-eskimos-mysteriously-vanished-700-years-ago/

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. Automated Systems: Treasury’s Efforts to Improve Its Payroll and Personnel Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Dec. Report No.: IMTEC-90-4.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gaete DO. Investigation of intuitive eating after intervention measured by the Intuitive Eating Scale [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

St. John Kelly E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 1994;148.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1, 2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	RadioGraphics
Abbreviation	Radiographics
ISSN (print)	0271-5333
ISSN (online)	1527-1323
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging