About the Journal
The Journal of the ICRU publishes reports on important and topical subjects within the field of radiation science and measurement. It is the successor to the series of reports published by or on behalf of the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) since 1927. The Commission continually reviews radiation science with the aim of identifying areas where the development of guidance and recommendations can make an important contribution. The journal consists of commissioned reports, and no submitted articles are accepted for publication.
Readership
Radiation protection practitioners, dosimetrists and scientists in medicine, research, industry (including nuclear power) and universities radiation oncologists, radiotherapists, diagnostic radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, medical physicists, regulators, radiobiologists, epidemiologists, emergency prepardness engineers, environmentalists and instrument designers.
Funding
Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear after the 'Operating Funds' paragraph. The following rules should be followed: the full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘National Institutes of Health’, not ‘NIH’; grant numbers should be given in brackets; multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma; agencies should be separated by a semi-colon; no extra wording like 'Funding for this work was provided by ...' should be used; where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'. An example is given here: ‘National Institutes of Health (CB5453961 to C.S., DB645473 to M.H.); Funding Agency (hfygr667789).’