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

Harris J (2009) Soil microbial communities and restoration ecology: facilitators or followers? Science 325:573–574

A journal article with 2 authors

Shen Y, Lua AC (2013) A facile method for the large-scale continuous synthesis of graphene sheets using a novel catalyst. Sci Rep 3:3037

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfingsten JS, Costantino DA, Kieft JS (2006) Structural basis for ribosome recruitment and manipulation by a viral IRES RNA. Science 314:1450–1454

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu W, Tanasa B, Tyurina OV, et al (2010) PHF8 mediates histone H4 lysine 20 demethylation events involved in cell cycle progression. Nature 466:508–512

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kudnig ST, Séguin B (2012) Veterinary Surgical Oncology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Nawrat. M AM (2014) Innovative Control Systems for Tracked Vehicle Platforms. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kossack NJ, Gromoll J, Reijo Pera RA (2009) Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Germ Cell Development. In: Rajasekhar VK, Vemuri MC (eds) Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 55–66

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

Andrew E (2015) Drone that Traps Mosquitoes May Prevent Epidemics. In: IFLScience. 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 (1975) College Work-Study Program. 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

Hughes LL (2010) The principalship: Preparation programs and the self-efficacy of principals. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Pilon M (2014) Another Dutch Sweep Leaves Americans Baffled. New York Times 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 [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