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

Smaglik P. Pitching ideas. Nature 2004;427(6976):759.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kokko H, López-Sepulcre A. From individual dispersal to species ranges: perspectives for a changing world. Science 2006;313(5788):789–791.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cotton CH, Flint J, Campbell TG. Is there an association between NPY and neuroticism? Nature 2009;458(7238):E6; discussion E7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lin S, Dikler S, Blincoe WD, et al. Mapping the dark space of chemical reactions with extended nanomole synthesis and MALDI-TOF MS. Science 2018;361(6402).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Venkateshan SP. Mechanical Measurements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Kropatsch WG, Artner NM, Haxhimusa Y, Jiang X, editors. Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition: 9th IAPR-TC-15 International Workshop, GbRPR 2013, Vienna, Austria, May 15-17, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Dunn AV, Nyalakonda K. Diabetes Mellitus Prevention and Treatment. In: Corrigan ML, Escuro AA, Kirby DF, editors. Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Stroke Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013. p. 63–79.

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. Earth-Sized “Diamond” Discovered in Space. IFLScience IFLScience; 2014.

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. Army Networks: Size and Scope of Modernization Investment Merit Increased Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Jan. Report No.: GAO-13-179.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hartl SD. The role of culture in managing diversity: How culturally based heuristics differ in minority and non-minority managerial decision making [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2012.

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

Smith M, GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES. Pipeline Again Divides Nebraska. New York Times 2017;A12.

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

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