How to format your references using the Tijdschrift voor Nucleaire Geneeskunde citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tijdschrift voor Nucleaire Geneeskunde. 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

Kimble HJ. The quantum internet. Nature. 2008 Jun 19;453(7198):1023–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Traverso G, Langer R. Perspective: Special delivery for the gut. Nature. 2015 Mar 26;519(7544):S19.

A journal article with 3 authors

Griesinger CB, Richards CD, Ashmore JF. Fast vesicle replenishment allows indefatigable signalling at the first auditory synapse. Nature. 2005 May 12;435(7039):212–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mora JR, Bono MR, Manjunath N, Weninger W, Cavanagh LL, Rosemblatt M, et al. Selective imprinting of gut-homing T cells by Peyer’s patch dendritic cells. Nature. 2003 Jul 3;424(6944):88–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler H. Food Industry Innovation School, The. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Soares R, Costa C, editors. Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Angiogenesis in the Metabolic Syndrome. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. X, 210 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Belgasem FFB, Salleh HM. Characterization of Recombinant Enzymes. In: Amid A, editor. Recombinant Enzymes - From Basic Science to Commercialization. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 41–60.

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 Tijdschrift voor Nucleaire Geneeskunde.

Blog post

Davis J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Dark Chocolate Could Offer Health Benefits. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dark-chocolate-could-offer-health-benefits-if-messed/

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. National Practitioner Data Bank: Major Improvements Are Needed to Enhance Data Bank’s Reliability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Nov. Report No.: GAO-01-130.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schroeder M. Investigating the Learnability of a Rogue Grammar: Null Subject Parameter Resetting in Second Language Acquisition [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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 C. Lesson One: The Price the Contractor Quotes Is an Estimate. New York Times. 2007 Feb 22;F4.

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	Tijdschrift voor Nucleaire Geneeskunde
ISSN (print)	1381-4842
Scope