How to format your references using the European Journal of Ultrasound (Ultraschall in der Medizin) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Ultrasound (Ultraschall in der Medizin). 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

Fara P. A microscopic reality tale. Nature 2009; 459: 642–644.

A journal article with 2 authors

Purnell BA, Hines PJ. Steps to the clinic. Stem cells. Introduction. Science 2009; 324: 1661.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aoi S, Kunugi T, Fujiwara H. Trampoline effect in extreme ground motion. Science 2008; 322: 727–730.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Denli AM, Tops BBJ, Plasterk RHA et al. Processing of primary microRNAs by the Microprocessor complex. Nature 2004; 432: 231–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ginena K, Hamid A. Foundations of Sharī‘ah Governance of Islamic Banks, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

Yung M, Zhang J, Yang Z, editors. Trusted Systems: 7th International Conference, INTRUST 2015, Beijing, China, December 7-8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers,. 2016[Online] 1st ed. 2016 Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Badman SV, Branduardi-Raymont G, Galand M et al. Auroral Processes at the Giant Planets: Energy Deposition, Emission Mechanisms, Morphology and Spectra. In: Szego K, Achilleos N, Arridge C et al. (Eds.) The Magnetodiscs and Aurorae of Giant Planets. New York, NY: Springer; 2016; 99–179.

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 Ultrasound (Ultraschall in der Medizin).

Blog post

Luntz S. Teenager Creates New HIV Test. In: IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018]. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/teenager-creates-new-hiv-test/.

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. Developing State Automated Information Systems To Support Federal Assistance Programs: Problems and Opportunities Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Berkow K. Importance of Effective Leadership for the Success of Mergers and Acquisitions [Doctoral dissertation] Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University; 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

Lee L. Almost Ready to Fly. In: New York Times. 2012 Mar. 1 D3.

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 [3, 4, 1, 2].

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Ultrasound (Ultraschall in der Medizin)
Abbreviation	Ultraschall Med.
ISSN (print)	0172-4614
ISSN (online)	1438-8782
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging