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

Haag A. Climate of opportunity. Nature. 2007 Aug 2;448(7153):618–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berlin S, Ellegren H. Evolutionary genetics. Clonal inheritance of avian mitochondrial DNA. Nature. 2001 Sep 6;413(6851):37–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rozin P, Haidt J, Fincher K. Psychology. From oral to moral. Science. 2009 Feb 27;323(5918):1179–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kaplanis J, Gordon A, Shor T, Weissbrod O, Geiger D, Wahl M, et al. Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees with millions of relatives. Science. 2018 Apr 13;360(6385):171–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang W, Shmulevich I, Astola J. Microarray Quality Control. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Greiner A. Public Debt, Sustainability and Economic Growth: Theory and Empirics. Fincke B, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar A, Mittal V, Kulkarni A. Sanskrit Compound Processor. In: Jha GN, editor. Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: 4th International Symposium, New Delhi, India, December 10-12, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 57–69.

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

Fang J. New 4D Ultrasound Scans Reveal Effects of Smoking on a Fetus [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-4d-ultrasound-scans-reveal-effects-smoking-fetus/

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. Space Shuttle: NASA’s Major Changes to Flight Hardware. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Jun. Report No.: NSIAD-88-173FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Acosta J. Building bridges: A specialized training program for professionals in school settings to address bullying in LGBTQ youth: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Crow K. Hoping That Holiday Trees Will Change a Now Bleak View. New York Times. 2001 Nov 18;146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haag 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Berlin and Ellegren 2001; Haag 2007).

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

Two authors: (Berlin and Ellegren 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kaplanis et al. 2018)

About the journal

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