How to format your references using the REACH citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for REACH. 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]

Worm B. ECOLOGY. A most unusual (super)predator. Science 2015;349:784–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chandonia J-M, Brenner SE. The impact of structural genomics: expectations and outcomes. Science 2006;311:347–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Stager JC, Day JJ, Santini S. Comment on “Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa.” Science 2004;304:963; author reply 963.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hon W-C, Wilson MI, Harlos K, Claridge TDW, Schofield CJ, Pugh CW, et al. Structural basis for the recognition of hydroxyproline in HIF-1 alpha by pVHL. Nature 2002;417:975–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Saleh AKME, Arashi M, Tabatabaey SMM. Statistical Inference for Models with Multivariate t -Distributed Errors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Winter J, Ono R, editors. The Future Internet: Alternative Visions. vol. 17. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vu H, Echigo T, Yagi K, Okazaki H, Fujiwara Y, Yagi Y, et al. Image-Enhanced Capsule Endoscopy Preserving the Original Color Tones. In: Yoshida H, Sakas G, Linguraru MG, editors. Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications: Third International Workshop, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2011, Toronto, ON, Canada, September 18, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 35–43.

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 REACH.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Cheap Vaccine Has Almost Wiped Meningitis A From Africa. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cheap-vaccine-has-almost-wiped-meningitis-africa0/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Card Reader Pilot Results Are Unreliable; Security Benefits Should Be Reassessed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Alsubaihi SI. Challenges for women academic leaders to obtain senior leadership positions in higher education in Saudi Arabia. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2016.

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]

de la MERCED MJ. Unity Technologies Agrees to Funding. New York Times 2017:B4.

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	REACH
ISSN (print)	2352-3093
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Medicine (miscellaneous) Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiation Human Factors and Ergonomics