How to format your references using the Radiology of Infectious Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Radiology of Infectious Diseases. 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

[1]

Antonelli A. Biodiversity: Multiple origins of mountain life. Nature 2015;524:300–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bilham R, Gaur V. Geophysics. Buildings as weapons of mass destruction. Science 2013;341:618–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xue H-J, Li W-Z, Yang X-K. Assortative mating between two sympatric closely-related specialists: inferred from molecular phylogenetic analysis and behavioral data. Sci Rep 2014;4:5436.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rajagopalan H, Bardelli A, Lengauer C, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, Velculescu VE. Tumorigenesis: RAF/RAS oncogenes and mismatch-repair status. Nature 2002;418:934.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Singh J. Functional Software Size Measurement Methodology with Effort Estimation and Performance Indication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Dion P, editor. Soil Biology and Agriculture in the Tropics. vol. 21. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mumford-Valenzuela CL. A Simple Approach to Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization. In: Abraham A, Jain L, Goldberg R, editors. Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Theoretical Advances and Applications, London: Springer; 2005, p. 55–79.

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 Radiology of Infectious Diseases.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Extreme Nomadic Waterbirds Fly 2,000 Kilometers to Find Desert Lakes. 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Potential for Widespread Disruption Calls for Strong Leadership and Partnerships. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dahdah S. Modeling an infrastructure safety rating for vulnerable road users in developing countries. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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

[1]

Lewis MJ. The Art of War. New York Times 2017:BR21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Radiology of Infectious Diseases
Abbreviation	Radiol. Infect. Dis.
ISSN (print)	2352-6211
Scope

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