How to format your references using the EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EJNMMI Radiopharmacy 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Swaminathan MS. Obituary: Norman E. Borlaug (1914-2009). Nature. 2009 Oct 15;461(7266):894.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaahtomeri K, Sixt M. Physiology: Relax and come in. Nature. 2014 Oct 23;514(7523):441–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Furman JL, Murray F, Stern S. More for the research dollar. Nature. 2010 Dec 9;468(7325):757–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yachida S, Jones S, Bozic I, Antal T, Leary R, Fu B, et al. Distant metastasis occurs late during the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer. Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1114–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper N, Forrest K, Cramp P. Essential Guide to Acute Care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Sipahi R, Vyhlídal T, Niculescu S-I, Pepe P, editors. Time Delay Systems: Methods, Applications and New Trends. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Zilan R, Barceló-Ordinas JM, Tavli B. Image Recognition Traffic Patterns for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. In: Cerdà-Alabern L, editor. Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet: 4th International Workshop of the EuroNGI/EuroFGI Network of Excellence Barcelona, Spain, January 16-18, 2008 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 49–59.

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 EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew D. Why You Should Dispense With Antibacterial Soaps [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-you-should-dispense-with-antibacterial-soaps/

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. Customs Automation: Weakness in Revenue Collection at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Sep. Report No.: IMTEC-90-16.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Savvas C. Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2010.

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

St. John Kelly E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times. 1993 Dec 5;1317.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Swaminathan 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Swaminathan 2009; Vaahtomeri and Sixt 2014).

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

Two authors: (Vaahtomeri and Sixt 2014)
Three or more authors: (Yachida et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry
Abbreviation	EJNMMI Radiopharm. Chem.
ISSN (online)	2365-421X
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