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

Power SB. Climate science: Expulsion from history. Nature 2014;511(7507):38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Toner DLK, Grima R. Effects of bursty protein production on the noisy oscillatory properties of downstream pathways. Sci Rep 2013;3:2438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe T, Náñez JE, Sasaki Y. Perceptual learning without perception. Nature 2001;413(6858):844–848.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yan J-J, Sun J-T, You Y-Z, Wu D-C, Hong C-Y. Growing hyperbranched polymers using natural sunlight. Sci Rep 2013;3:2841.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jaffe J. Flip the Funnel. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Beckert B, Damiani F, Gurov D, editors. Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software: International Conference, FoVeOOS 2011, Turin, Italy, October 5-7, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Granick S. Tribology at Small Scales. In: Luo J, Meng Y, Shao T, Zhao Q, editors. Advanced Tribology: Proceedings of CIST2008 & ITS-IFToMM2008 Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 11–11.

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

Andrew E. Combating ‘Neglected’ Diseases Using Nature’s Apothecary [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/combating-neglected-diseases-using-nature-s-apothecary/

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. Information Technology: DOD Needs to Leverage Lessons Learned from Its Outsourcing Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Apr. Report No.: GAO-03-371.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Young AJ. An Examination of Cultures of Innovation within Esoteric Technology Provider: A Look into Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2017.

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

Greenhouse L. Supreme Court Takes Up Global Warming Case. New York Times 2006;A2.

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