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. Nelder C. Communication: Positive energy. Nature. 2013;498:293–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Geschwind DH, Flint J. Genetics and genomics of psychiatric disease. Science. 2015;349:1489–94.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Batey RT, Gilbert SD, Montange RK. Structure of a natural guanine-responsive riboswitch complexed with the metabolite hypoxanthine. Nature. 2004;432:411–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ming G-L, Wong ST, Henley J, Yuan X-B, Song H-J, Spitzer NC, et al. Adaptation in the chemotactic guidance of nerve growth cones. Nature. 2002;417:411–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Popescu D, Gharbi A, Stefanoiu D, Borne P. Process Control Design for Industrial Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. DeLamater J, Ward A, editors. Handbook of Social Psychology. 2nd ed. 2013. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Batura O, Evas T. Information Society Goes East: ICT Policy in the EU’s Eastern Partnership Cooperation Framework. In: Kerikmäe T, Chochia A, editors. Political and Legal Perspectives of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 39–57.

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. Andrew E. Unstoppable Robo-Roach Can Get Around Any Obstacle [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/velociroach/

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. Air Traffic Control: Complete and Enforced Architecture Needed for FAA Systems Modernization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Feb. Report No.: AIMD-97-30.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Farhad K. Development of a web-based educational resource on the most effective micronutrients in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Fiske IH. WILLIAM MORRIS. New York Times. 1907 Mar 23;REVIEW OF BOOKSBR169.

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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