How to format your references using the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 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

Hertz N (2009) Recession Watch: Cooperation must rule. Nature 457:962–963

A journal article with 2 authors

McBrearty S, Jablonski NG (2005) First fossil chimpanzee. Nature 437:105–108

A journal article with 3 authors

Vinothkumar KR, Zhu J, Hirst J (2014) Architecture of mammalian respiratory complex I. Nature 515:80–84

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pal SK, Itkis ME, Tham FS, et al (2005) Resonating valence-bond ground state in a phenalenyl-based neutral radical conductor. Science 309:281–284

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blanchet G, Dupouy B (2012) Computer Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Brito P (2008) COMPSTAT 2008: Proceedings in Computational Statistics. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Génard M, Memmah M-M, Quilot-Turion B, et al (2016) Process-Based Simulation Models Are Essential Tools for Virtual Profiling and Design of Ideotypes: Example of Fruit and Root. In: Yin X, Struik PC (eds) Crop Systems Biology: Narrowing the gaps between crop modelling and genetics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 83–104

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 Journal of Nuclear Cardiology.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Pufferfishes Aren’t Holding Their Breath When They’re Inflated. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pufferfishes-arent-holding-their-breath-when-theyre-inflated/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1973) Need for Improved Controls for Identifying and Correcting Safety Defects on Light Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tambornini TF (2013) Supportive and subsidized housing solutions for Sonoma County: A grant project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (2002) Tough Club, a Dashing Man, And His Invisible Footprints. New York Times 145

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	Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
Abbreviation	J. Nucl. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	1071-3581
ISSN (online)	1532-6551
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging