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 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

Macrakis K. Science and the Stasi. Nature. 2009 Oct 1;461(7264):594–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zwiers FW, Weaver AJ. CLIMATE CHANGE: The Causes of 20th Century Warming. Science. 2000 Dec 15;290(5499):2081–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maisel SB, Höfler M, Müller S. A canonical stability-elasticity relationship verified for one million face-centred-cubic structures. Nature. 2012 Nov 29;491(7426):740–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wenger OS, Leigh BS, Villahermosa RM, Gray HB, Winkler JR. Electron tunneling through organic molecules in frozen glasses. Science. 2005 Jan 7;307(5706):99–102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiher M, Wolf A. Relativistic Quantum Chemistry. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2014.

An edited book

Chaires JB, Graves D, editors. Quadruplex Nucleic Acids. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Bogojević S. ‘Europeanisation’ of the Judiciary in Southeast Europe. In: Rodin S, Perišin T, editors. Judicial Application of International Law in Southeast Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 65–79.

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

Luntz S. Sea Sponges Show The Way To Cancer Treatment With Fewer Side-Effects. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. NASA: Compliance with Cost Limits. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Apr. Report No.: GAO-05-492R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

PerLee-Lange DL. An introduction to the juvenile dependency court process and the child welfare system: A curriculum for parents [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Greenhouse L. Justices Weigh Limits on Punitive Damages. New York Times. 2006 Nov 1;A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macrakis 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Macrakis 2009; Zwiers and Weaver 2000).

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

Two authors: (Zwiers and Weaver 2000)
Three or more authors: (Wenger et al. 2005)

About the journal

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