How to format your references using the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 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]

Niiler E. Good neighbours. Nature 2003;426:690–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Glass K, Girvan M. Annotation enrichment analysis: an alternative method for evaluating the functional properties of gene sets. Sci Rep 2014;4:4191.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Brook BW, Sodhi NS, Ng PKL. Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore. Nature 2003;424:420–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schreyvogel C, Wolfer M, Kato H, Schreck M, Nebel CE. Tuned NV emission by in-plane Al-Schottky junctions on hydrogen terminated diamond. Sci Rep 2014;4:3634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cuddy-Keane M, Hammond A, Peat A. Modernism: Keywords. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Tropina T. Self- and Co-regulation in Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and National Security. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Agarwal RP, Cuevas C, Lizama C. Second-Order Linear Difference Equations. In: Cuevas C, Lizama C, editors. Regularity of Difference Equations on Banach Spaces, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 71–97.

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 Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Scientists Edge Closer To Stem Cell Therapy For Parkinson’s. 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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Continued Investment in Key Accounting Systems Needs to be Justified. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Barrios G. Outreach program to address the unmet needs of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans: A grant proposal. 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]

Berendt J, Kanter J. In Personal Feud, Poland Opposes Ex-Premier’s 2nd Term on E.U. Council. New York Times 2017:A6.

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	Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Abbreviation	J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf.
ISSN (print)	0022-4073
Scope	Spectroscopy Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics Radiation