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

Mervis J. IMMIGRATION POLICY: Growth in Visas Boosts NSF Education Programs. Science 2000;290(5490):249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padilla A., Gibson I. Science moves to centre stage. Nature 2000;403(6768):357–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Råberg L., Sim D., Read AF. Disentangling genetic variation for resistance and tolerance to infectious diseases in animals. Science 2007;318(5851):812–4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhao X., Zhang Z., Wang L., et al. Excellent microwave absorption property of Graphene-coated Fe nanocomposites. Sci Rep 2013;3:3421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yanni SB. Translational ADMET for Drug Therapy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Henes M., Murray BH. Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760–1900. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Wright P., McCarthy J., Meekison L. Making Sense of Experience. In: Blythe MA, Overbeeke K, Monk AF et al., editors. Funology: From Usability to Enjoyment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. p. 43–53.

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

Fang J. Why Does Popcorn Pop? IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/why-does-popcorn-pop/. 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. Technology Transfer: NNSA Did Not Implement the Technology Infrastructure Pilot Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eastwood JL. The effects of an interdisciplinary undergraduate human biology program on socioscientific reasoning, content learning, and understanding of inquiry. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2010.

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. IN REVERSAL OF COURSE, JUSTICES, 5-4, BACK BAN ON ABORTION METHOD. New York Times 2007:A1.

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

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