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]

Fuyuno I. Olympus finds market rival hard to swallow. Nature 2005;438:913.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chandler JA, Turelli M. Comment on “The hologenomic basis of speciation: gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia.” Science 2014;345:1011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Waghmare PR, Gunda NSK, Mitra SK. Under-water superoleophobicity of fish scales. Sci Rep 2014;4:7454.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kodambaka S, Tersoff J, Reuter MC, Ross FM. Germanium nanowire growth below the eutectic temperature. Science 2007;316:729–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Will H. »Sei naiv und mach’ ein Experiment«: Feodor Lynen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Bogdan B. Valuation in Life Sciences: A Practical Guide. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Babagholami-Mohamadabadi B, Roostaiyan SM, Zarghami A, Baghshah MS. Multi-Modal Distance Metric Learning: ABayesian Non-parametric Approach. In: Agapito L, Bronstein MM, Rother C, editors. Computer Vision - ECCV 2014 Workshops: Zurich, Switzerland, September 6-7 and 12, 2014, Proceedings, Part III, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 63–77.

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. Researchers Create First Single-Molecule Diode. IFLScience 2015.

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. JFMIP: Acquisition/Financial Systems Interface Requirements (Exposure Draft). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Owen AK. Preventive health behaviors: A look at the correlation between regular physical activity and routine cervical cancer screening. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Rothenberg B. Young Stars Climb Rankings, Jolting Russia’s Dormant Men’s Game to Life. New York Times 2017:B9.

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