How to format your references using the Annals of Nuclear Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Nuclear Medicine. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

1. Tempel E. Cosmology: Meet the Laniakea supercluster. Nature. 2014;513:41–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schiermeier Q, Wegner R. Foreign researchers turn their backs on Germany. Nature. 2002;415:945.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Okabe Y, Sano T, Nagata S. Regulation of the innate immune response by threonine-phosphatase of Eyes absent. Nature. 2009;460:520–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu Q, Wang L, Frutos AG, Condon AE, Corn RM, Smith LM. DNA computing on surfaces. Nature. 2000;403:175–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sestina JE. Planning a Successful Future. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Galloway NR. Common Eye Diseases and their Management. Third Edition. Amoaku WMK, Galloway PH, Browning AC, editors. London: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Clerbout N, Rahman S. The Dialogical Take on the Axiom of Choice, and Its Translation into CTT. In: Rahman S, editor. Linking Game-Theoretical Approaches with Constructive Type Theory: Dialogical Strategies, CTT demonstrations and the Axiom of Choice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 53–85.

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 Annals of Nuclear Medicine.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Eyes Are A Lot More Expensive Than We Thought. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Electronic Government: Federal Initiatives Are Evolving Rapidly But They Face Significant Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 May. Report No.: T-AIMD/GGD-00-179.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Murdock JM. Lethe and the Twin Bodhisattvas of Forgiveness and Forgetfulness [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

1. Benedict I. WELL ENOUGH AS IT IS. New York Times. 1899 May 6;STURDAY NEW YORK OF BOOKS AND ARTBR299.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Annals of Nuclear Medicine
Abbreviation	Ann. Nucl. Med.
ISSN (print)	0914-7187
ISSN (online)	1864-6433
Scope	General Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging