How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 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 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

Gothelf KV. Materials science. LEGO-like DNA structures. Science 2012; 338(6111): 1159–1160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Destexhe A, Contreras D. Neuronal computations with stochastic network states. Science 2006; 314(5796): 85–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Velarde E, Ezcurra E, Anderson DW. Seabird diets provide early warning of sardine fishery declines in the Gulf of California. Sci. Rep. 2013; 3: 1332.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pelling AE, Sehati S, Gralla EB, Valentine JS, Gimzewski JK. Local nanomechanical motion of the cell wall of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 2004; 305(5687): 1147–1150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Voldman SH. ESD (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, United Kingdom, 2014).

An edited book

Trappl R, ed. Programming for Peace: Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006).

A chapter in an edited book

Tsuchida K. Social Structures and Conflict Resolution in Primitively Eusocial Polistes Wasps, in From Genes to Animal Behavior: Social Structures, Personalities, Communication by Color, edited by M. Inoue-Murayama, S. Kawamura and A. Weiss (Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2011), pp. 83–112.

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 Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics.

Blog post

Davis J. Potential New Non-Addictive Opioid Drug Discovered. IFLScience 2016;

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. Major NIH Computer System: Poor Management Resulted in Unmet Scientists’ Needs and Wasted Millions (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ponder S. Parent information nights: An elementary school principal’s search to increase parent input and affect the learning-at-home environment (Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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

Woideck G. Buddha Provides Tap Shoes. New York Times 2016; A14.

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	Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Clin. Med. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1526-9914
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Instrumentation Radiation