How to format your references using the Tijdschrift voor Nucleaire Geneeskunde citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tijdschrift voor Nucleaire Geneeskunde. 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

Seiradakis JH. Pulsar astronomy. Older than they look. Nature. 2000 Jul 13;406(6792):139–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Herrera AM, Cohn MJ. Embryonic origin and compartmental organization of the external genitalia. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 5;4:6896.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu B, Chen J, Singer RH. Background free imaging of single mRNAs in live cells using split fluorescent proteins. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan 9;4:3615.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Choi G, Kwon OJ, Oh Y, Yun CO, Choy JH. Inorganic nanovehicle targets tumor in an orthotopic breast cancer model. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 21;4:4430.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Müller G, Ponick B. Grundlagen elektrischer Maschinen. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Weerasinghe D, editor. Information Security and Digital Forensics: First International Conference, ISDF 2009, London, United Kingdom, September 7-9, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. VIII, 185 p. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; vol. 41).

A chapter in an edited book

Yang C, Yang G, Gehani A, Yegneswaran V, Tariq D, Gu G. Using Provenance Patterns to Vet Sensitive Behaviors in Android Apps. In: Thuraisingham B, Wang X, Yegneswaran V, editors. Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 11th EAI International Conference, SecureComm 2015, Dallas, TX, USA, October 26-29, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 58–77. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).

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 Tijdschrift voor Nucleaire Geneeskunde.

Blog post

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Watch The Movement Of Whale Sharks On This Live Map. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-the-movement-of-whale-sharks-on-this-live-map/

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. FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Jan. Report No.: IMTEC-91-22.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moon MM. The needs of Korean-American and Korean families of children with disabilities [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Rothenberg B. It’s Jelena Ostapenko on Her ID, and Alona to Those in the Know. New York Times. 2017 Jul 8;SP7.

In-text citations

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

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	Tijdschrift voor Nucleaire Geneeskunde
ISSN (print)	1381-4842
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