How to format your references using the Brachytherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brachytherapy. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Pusey PN. Physics. Brownian motion goes ballistic. Science 2011;332:802–803.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Toth LJ, Assad JA. Dynamic coding of behaviourally relevant stimuli in parietal cortex. Nature 2002;415:165–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ruby JG, Jan CH, Bartel DP. Intronic microRNA precursors that bypass Drosha processing. Nature 2007;448:83–86.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang J, Rao S, Chu J, et al. A protein interaction network for pluripotency of embryonic stem cells. Nature 2006;444:364–368.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hallberg MC. Economic Trends in U.S. Agriculture and Food Systems Since World War II. Ames, Iowa, USA: Iowa State University Press; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Maconi G, Porro GB, editors. Ultrasound of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tokalaki A, Michailidis A, Partalidou M, Theodossiou G. Crisis and Social Capital in Greece: A Comparative Study Between Rural and Urban Communities. In: Karasavvoglou A, Aranđelović Z, Marinković S, Polychronidou P, editors. The First Decade of Living with the Global Crisis: Economic and Social Developments in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Contributions to Economics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 61–71.

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 Brachytherapy.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Cassini Begins Its Ring-Grazing Orbits Of Saturn. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-begins-its-ring-grazing-orbits-of-saturn/. 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. Non-Federal Computer Acquisition Practices Provide Useful Information for Streamlining Federal Methods. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Miller A. Group Mentoring Program to Empower Transitional-Aged Youth: A Grant Proposal. 2017.

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]

Kenigsberg B. The King’s Choice. New York Times. September 21, 2017:C11.

In-text citations

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

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	Brachytherapy
Abbreviation	Brachytherapy
ISSN (print)	1538-4721
ISSN (online)	1873-1449
Scope	Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging