How to format your references using the Radiation Protection Dosimetry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Radiation Protection Dosimetry (RPD). 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

Smaglik, P. Thinking big, Nature 428(6985), 873 (2004).

A journal article with 2 authors

Malone, J. H. and Michalak, P. Physiological sex predicts hybrid sterility regardless of genotype, Science 319(5859), 59 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

Dale, V. H., Crisafulli, C. M. and Swanson, F. J. Ecology. 25 years of ecological change at Mount St. Helens, Science 308(5724), 961–962 (2005).

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Falconer, E., Chavez, E. A., Henderson, A., Poon, S. S. S., McKinney, S., Brown, L., Huntsman, D. G. and Lansdorp, P. M. Identification of sister chromatids by DNA template strand sequences, Nature 463(7277), 93–97 (2010).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Golding, P. Next Generation Wireless Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2005) ISBN 9780470870525.

An edited book

Stockfleth, E. and Ulrich, C., eds. Skin Cancer after Organ Transplantation, 1st ed. Springer US (2009) ISBN 9780387785738.

A chapter in an edited book

Denker, M. and Grün, S. Designing Workflows for the Reproducible Analysis of Electrophysiological Data, [Brain-Inspired Computing: Second International Workshop, BrainComp 2015, Cetraro, Italy, July 6-10, 2015, Revised Selected Papers], K. Amunts, L. Grandinetti, T. Lippert, and N. Petkov, Eds., Springer International Publishing, 58–72 (2016).

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 Protection Dosimetry.

Blog post

Fang, J. Why Are There So Many Beetles? They’re Extinction-Resistant, IFLScience, 20 March 2015, <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-there-so-many-beetles-theyre-extinction-resistant/> (30 October 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. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs: Distribution of Fiscal Year 2000 Indian Reservation Roads Funds, OGC-00-39, U.S. Government Printing Office (2000).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jha, J. S. [3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Gem-Dicyanoepoxide and Electrophilic Reaction of Ethyl Atropate, Doctoral dissertation (2013).

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

Brantley, B. A Darwinian Revival With a Feminist Streak, New York Times, C1 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Radiation Protection Dosimetry
ISSN (print)	0144-8420
ISSN (online)	1742-3406
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