How to format your references using the Radiologic Clinics of North America citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Radiologic Clinics of North America (RCL). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Christensen UR. A deep dynamo generating Mercury’s magnetic field. Nature 2006;444(7122):1056–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dorin JR., Jackson IJ. Genetics. Beta-defensin repertoire expands. Science 2007;318(5855):1395.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun J-Y., Wu X-S., Wu L-G. Single and multiple vesicle fusion induce different rates of endocytosis at a central synapse. Nature 2002;417(6888):555–9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Clutton-Brock TH., Hodge SJ., Spong G., et al. Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals. Nature 2006;444(7122):1065–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisswanger H. Enzyme Kinetics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

Crimi A., Menze B., Maier O., et al. Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries: Second International Workshop, BrainLes 2016, with the Challenges on BRATS, ISLES and mTOP 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 17, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 10154. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Clark S., Blaze M., Smith J. Blood in the Water. In: Christianson B, Malcolm J, editors. Security Protocols XVIII: 18th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 24-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 12–7.

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 Radiologic Clinics of North America.

Blog post

Andrew E. Man Makes 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand For Son For Only $10. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/man-makes-3d-printed-prosthetic-hand-son-only-10/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Computer-Based Patient Records: Sound Planning and Project Management Are Needed to Achieve a Two-Way Exchange of VA and DOD Health Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Felsburg DF. The business of evangelism: A phenomenological study of frustration and attrition among Christian evangelists. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2008.

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

Dobbins J. Making a Living on Airbnb. New York Times 2017:RE1.

In-text citations

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

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	Radiologic Clinics of North America
Abbreviation	Radiol. Clin. North Am.
ISSN (print)	0033-8389
ISSN (online)	1557-8275
Scope	General Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging