How to format your references using the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation citation style

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

Evans, J. A. (2008). Science 321, 395–399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koos, E. & Willenbacher, N. (2011). Science 331, 897–900.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cui, P., Tang, M. & Wu, Z.-X. (2014). Sci. Rep. 4, 6303.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aranson, I. S., Snezhko, A., Olafsen, J. S. & Urbach, J. S. (2008). Science 320, 612; author reply 612.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larsen, E. & Aarts, R. M. (2005). Audio Bandwidth Extension Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rikowski, R. (2011). Digitisation Perspectives Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Parpinelli, R. S. & Lopes, H. S. (2012). Vol. Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2012: 13th International Conference, Natal, Brazil, August 29-31, 2012. Proceedings, edited by H. Yin, J. A. F. Costa & G. Barreto. pp. 27–34. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Synchrotron Radiation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013). 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

Government Accountability Office (1996). Transportation Infrastructure: Central Artery/Tunnel Project Faces Financial Uncertainties 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

Nguyen, J. (2012). Adherence to medications among Vietnamese Americans 65 years of age and older. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Philpott, M. L. (2017). New York Times SR9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Evans, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Evans, 2008; Koos & Willenbacher, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Koos & Willenbacher, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Aranson et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
Abbreviation	J. Synchrotron Radiat.
ISSN (online)	1600-5775
Scope	Instrumentation Nuclear and High Energy Physics Radiation