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

Gregory RL. Perceptions of knowledge. Nature 2001;410(6824):21.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reczek CR, Chandel NS. CANCER. Revisiting vitamin C and cancer. Science 2015;350(6266):1317–1318.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chakravarty S, Kee H-Y, Völker K. An explanation for a universality of transition temperatures in families of copper oxide superconductors. Nature 2004;428(6978):53–55.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Motoyama EM, Yu G, Vishik IM, Vajk OP, Mang PK, Greven M. Spin correlations in the electron-doped high-transition-temperature superconductor Nd2-xCexCuO4+/-delta. Nature 2007;445(7124):186–189.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharma YC. A Guide to the Economic Removal of Metals from Aqueous Solutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Valla G. Hilbert Functions of Filtered Modules. Rossi ME, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Hill KM, Luft JA. Exploring Beginning Teachers’ Content Knowledge. In: Luft JA, Dubois SL, editors. Newly Hired Teachers of Science: A Better Beginning Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015. p. 57–74.

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 D. The Big Picture Of The Universe Reveals The Family Tree Of Galaxies [Internet]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-big-picture-of-the-universe-reveals-the-family-tree-of-galaxies/

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. Space Operations: NASA Is Not Properly Safeguarding Valuable Data From Past Missions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Mar. Report No.: IMTEC-90-1.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cornelius DA. The value of Scrum to organizations: A case study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2014.

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

Hubbard B, Saad H. Thousands Evacuated From Besieged Syrian Towns. New York Times 2017;A7.

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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