How to format your references using the Radiation Measurements citation style

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

Markov, I.L., 2014. Limits on fundamental limits to computation. Nature 512, 147–154.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aussillous, P., Quéré, D., 2001. Liquid marbles. Nature 411, 924–927.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walker, J.R., Corpina, R.A., Goldberg, J., 2001. Structure of the Ku heterodimer bound to DNA and its implications for double-strand break repair. Nature 412, 607–614.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peter, J., De Chiara, M., Friedrich, A., Yue, J.-X., Pflieger, D., Bergström, A., Sigwalt, A., Barre, B., Freel, K., Llored, A., Cruaud, C., Labadie, K., Aury, J.-M., Istace, B., Lebrigand, K., Barbry, P., Engelen, S., Lemainque, A., Wincker, P., Liti, G., Schacherer, J., 2018. Genome evolution across 1,011 Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates. Nature 556, 339–344.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaseghi, S.V., 2006. Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ehiri, J. (Ed.), 2009. Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Roth, B., Klakow, D., 2010. Combining Wikipedia-Based Concept Models for Cross-Language Retrieval, in: Cunningham, H., Hanbury, A., Rüger, S. (Eds.), Advances in Multidisciplinary Retrieval: First Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2010, Vienna, Austria, May 31, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 47–59.

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 Radiation Measurements.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Drone Quadcopter Explores Volcanic Eruption [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/drone-quadcopter-explores-volcanic-eruption/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1975. Improved Planning and Management of Information Systems Development Needed (No. LCD-74-118). 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

Bradford, J., 2012. Commutative endomorphism rings of simple abelian varieties over finite fields (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Stewart, J.B., 2017. After Trump, Executives Ponder Path Into Politics. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Markov, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Aussillous and Quéré, 2001; Markov, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Aussillous and Quéré, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Peter et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Radiation Measurements
Abbreviation	Radiat. Meas.
ISSN (print)	1350-4487
Scope	Instrumentation Radiation