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

Dede C. Immersive interfaces for engagement and learning. Science. 2009 Jan 2;323(5910):66–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerstner W, Naud R. Neuroscience. How good are neuron models? Science. 2009 Oct 16;326(5951):379–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goodman DB, Church GM, Kosuri S. Causes and effects of N-terminal codon bias in bacterial genes. Science. 2013 Oct 25;342(6157):475–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shioiri S, Yamazaki T, Matsumiya K, Kuriki I. Rotation-independent representations for haptic movements. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2595.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szeman I, O’Brien S. Popular Culture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Liu Y. Stochastic Network Calculus. Jiang Y, editor. London: Springer; 2008. XIX, 232 p. 26 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Cong J, Luo G. 3D Physical Design. In: Papanikolaou A, Soudris D, Radojcic R, editors. Three Dimensional System Integration: IC Stacking Process and Design. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011. p. 73–100.

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

Taub B. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016. MDMA Should Be Studied Not Demonized, Say Researchers.

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. New Denver Airport: Safety, Construction, Capacity, and Financing Considerations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Sep. Report No.: RCED-91-240.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zanulabe Din MO. Engineered Synchrony of Bacterial Lysis and its Applications [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 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

Poniewozik J. On Trump and Clinton, Letting the Chips Fall Where They May. New York Times. 2016 Sep 26;C1.

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
Scope