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

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

Blumenthal MS. National Academy of Sciences: Move with the times. Nature. 2013;494(7438):423-424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lane N, Martin W. The energetics of genome complexity. Nature. 2010;467(7318):929-934.

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffith S, Goldwater D, Jacobson JM. Robotics: self-replication from random parts. Nature. 2005;437(7059):636.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dong M, Kathiresan V, Fenwick MK, et al. Organometallic and radical intermediates reveal mechanism of diphthamide biosynthesis. Science. 2018;359(6381):1247-1250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Padilla E. Substation Automation Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Grizzard JD. Cardiovascular MRI in Practice: A Teaching File Approach. (Judd RM, Kim RJ, eds.). Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Sontz SB. Toeplitz Quantization without Measure or Inner Product. In: Kielanowski P, Bieliavsky P, Odesskii A, Odzijewicz A, Schlichenmaier M, Voronov T, eds. Geometric Methods in Physics: XXXII Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 30-July 6, 2013. Trends in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing; 2014:57-66.

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 Medicine Technology.

Blog post

Taub B. Meatier Than A Meteor: Bakers Send Pie Into Space. IFLScience.

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. Airport Development Needs: Estimating Future Costs. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lima AA. Racial and Cultural Identity Formation of Low-Income Brazilian Youth of African Descent through Their Experiences and Perceptions in Formal and Informal Schools. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

Hubbard B, Saad H. Thousands Evacuated From Besieged Syrian Towns. New York Times. April 14, 2017:A7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Medicine Technology
Abbreviation	J. Nucl. Med. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0091-4916
ISSN (online)	1535-5675
Scope	General Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology