How to format your references using the Journal of Radiological Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Radiological Protection. 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

[1]

Bowles S 2008 Policies designed for self-interested citizens may undermine “the moral sentiments”: evidence from economic experiments Science 320 1605–9

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Norskov J K and Christensen C H 2006 Chemistry. Toward efficient hydrogen production at surfaces Science 312 1322–3

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yang R T, Hernández-Maldonado A J and Yang F H 2003 Desulfurization of transportation fuels with zeolites under ambient conditions Science 301 79–81

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Jackson R B, Berthrong S T, Cook C W, Jobbágy E G and McCulley R L 2004 Comment on “A reservoir of nitrate beneath desert soils” Science 304 51; author reply 51

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Volpe M A 2013 Rethinking Christian Identity (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Kwiecień A, Gaj P and Stera P 2011 Computer Networks: 18th Conference, CN 2011, Ustron, Poland, June 14-18, 2011. Proceedings vol 160 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Borsdorf A and Stadel C 2015 The Cultural Development of the Andes The Andes: A Geographical Portrait Springer Geography ed C Stadel (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 99–131

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 Radiological Protection.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T 2017 Turns Out That New Massive Ancient Egyptian Statue Isn’t Ramses II IFLScience

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 2000 Laboratory Research: State of Tennessee Exempts DOE’s Spallation Neutron Source Project From Sales and Use Taxes (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cuvar K M 2015 Balanced and collaborative outsourcing of IT services: A qualitative Delphi study of enterprise partnerships Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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]

Sutherland J 2017 You Don’t Know Jane New York Times BR11

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 Radiological Protection
Abbreviation	J. Radiol. Prot.
ISSN (print)	0952-4746
ISSN (online)	1361-6498
Scope	Waste Management and Disposal General Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health