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

Karoly DJ. Atmospheric science. Ozone and climate change. Science. 2003 Oct 10;302(5643):236–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verhulst S, Tinbergen JM. Variation in food supply, time of breeding, and energy expenditure in birds. Science. 2001 Oct 19;294(5542):471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bick AG, Calvo SE, Mootha VK. Evolutionary diversity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter. Science. 2012 May 18;336(6083):886.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wen JD, Lancaster L, Hodges C, Zeri AC, Yoshimura SH, Noller HF, et al. Following translation by single ribosomes one codon at a time. Nature. 2008 Apr 3;452(7187):598–603.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith J, Roberts R. Vital Signs for Nurses. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Thakur MK, Rattan SIS, editors. Brain Aging and Therapeutic Interventions. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. XII, 296 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Herrera LJ, Pomares H, Rojas I, Verleysen M, Guilén A. Effective Input Variable Selection for Function Approximation. In: Kollias SD, Stafylopatis A, Duch W, Oja E, editors. Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006: 16th International Conference, Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006 Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 41–50. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015. Hug Hormone Oxytocin Boosts Bonding By Releasing Cannabis-Like Molecules.

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Alternative Financing Mechanisms for Surface Transportation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Sep. Report No.: GAO-02-1126T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Angervil G. Administrative Discretion in Public Policy Implementation: The Case of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 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

Crow K. Neighbors Say a School Is Just a Growing Bully. New York Times. 2001 Jun 10;147.

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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