How to format your references using the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 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

Willerroider M (2004) Making the move into drug sales. Nature 430:486–487

A journal article with 2 authors

Funk JL, Vitousek PM (2007) Resource-use efficiency and plant invasion in low-resource systems. Nature 446:1079–1081

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurtovic A, Widmer A, Dickson BJ (2007) A single class of olfactory neurons mediates behavioural responses to a Drosophila sex pheromone. Nature 446:542–546

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li X, Zhang F, Niu Q, Feng J (2014) Superlattice valley engineering for designer topological insulators. Sci Rep 4:6397

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beiser L (2005) Unified Optical Scanning Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Spinthourakis JA, Lalor J, Berg W (2012) Cultural Diversity in the Classroom: A European Comparison. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Murai H, Tokosumi A (2008) Extracting Concepts from Religious Knowledge Resources and Constructing Classic Analysis Systems. In: Tokunaga T, Ortega A (eds) Large-Scale Knowledge Resources. Construction and Application: Third International Conference on Large-Scale Knowledge Resources, LKR 2008, Tokyo, Japan, March 3-5, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 51–58

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 Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) New Study Solves One Of The “Alien Megastructure” Star’s Mysteries. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1995) Tax Systems Modernization: Management and Technical Weaknesses Must Be Corrected If Modernization Is to Succeed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ladendorff MZ (2014) The effect of North American Electric Reliability Corporation critical infrastructure protection standards on bulk electric system reliability. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Sisario B (2017) Ariana Grande To Perform Benefit. New York Times C3

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 Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
Abbreviation	J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0236-5731
ISSN (online)	1588-2780
Scope	Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Nuclear Energy and Engineering Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Pollution Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging