How to format your references using the Radiation Physics and Chemistry citation style

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

Bynum, W., 2012. Nobel success: What makes a great lab? Nature 490, 31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tseng, G.Y., Ellenbogen, J.C., 2001. Nanotechnology. Toward nanocomputers. Science 294, 1293–1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Echtay, K.S., Winkler, E., Klingenberg, M., 2000. Coenzyme Q is an obligatory cofactor for uncoupling protein function. Nature 408, 609–613.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Loveday, J.S., Nelmes, R.J., Guthrie, M., Belmonte, S.A., Allan, D.R., Klug, D.D., Tse, J.S., Handa, Y.P., 2001. Stable methane hydrate above 2 GPa and the source of Titan’s atmospheric methane. Nature 410, 661–663.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tanwir, S., Perros, H., 2014. VBR Video Traffic Models. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sacchi, C., Bellalta, B., Vinel, A., Schlegel, C., Granelli, F., Zhang, Y. (Eds.), 2011. Multiple Access Communications: 4th International Workshop, MACOM 2011, Trento, Italy, September 12-13, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sarkis, M., Zia, W., Diepold, K., 2010. Fast Depth Map Compression and Meshing with Compressed Tritree, in: Zha, H., Taniguchi, R.-I., Maybank, S. (Eds.), Computer Vision – ACCV 2009: 9th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Xi’an, September 23-27, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 44–55.

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 Physics and Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. NASA Wants to Send an Airplane to Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/first-mars-airplane/ (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, 1972. Improved Use of Cargo Space on Ammunition Ships by BetterPlanning (No. B-133025). 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

Gross, J., 2010. High-performance dram system design constraints and considerations (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

Kelly, K., 2010. Achieving Techno-Literacy. New York Times MM21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bynum, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bynum, 2012; Tseng and Ellenbogen, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Tseng and Ellenbogen, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Loveday et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Radiation Physics and Chemistry
Abbreviation	Radiat. Phys. Chem. Oxf. Engl. 1993
ISSN (print)	0969-806X
Scope	Radiation