How to format your references using the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 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	Download the output style file
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. McDowell G. Why not have a life? Science. 2015;349:554.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kawaguchi K, Ishiwata S. Nucleotide-dependent single- to double-headed binding of kinesin. Science. 2001;291:667–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee KJ, Dietrich P, Jessell TM. Genetic ablation reveals that the roof plate is essential for dorsal interneuron specification. Nature. 2000;403:734–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang Y, Rogado NS, Cava RJ, Ong NP. Spin entropy as the likely source of enhanced thermopower in Na(x)Co2O4. Nature. 2003;423:425–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dinet J. Information Retrieval in Digital Environments. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Fatemi SH, editor. Reelin Glycoprotein: Structure, Biology and Roles in Health and Disease. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Saling P. Eco-efficiency Assessment. In: Finkbeiner M, editor. Special Types of Life Cycle Assessment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016. p. 115–78.

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 European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Can These “Walking Trees” REALLY Move Up To 20 Meters Per Year? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/no-walking-palms-south-america-cannot-actually-walk-around/

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. High-Speed Ground Transport: Acquiring Rights-of-Way for Maglev Systems Requires a Flexible Approach. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Feb. Report No.: RCED-92-82.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Katsky CS. Open Secrets: Congressional Oversight of the CIA in the Early Cold War [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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. Kelly S. The Canadiens; and Soul Hockey No Politics on Ice Flyers a Different Breed. New York Times. 1978 Apr 9;SportsS2.

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	European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging
ISSN (print)	1619-7070
ISSN (online)	1619-7089
Scope	General Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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