How to format your references using the Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal. 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

Marx CJ. Microbiology. Getting in touch with your friends. Science. 2009 May 29;324(5931):1150–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee JY, Jameson SC. Immunology. Remembering to be tolerant. Science. 2012 Feb 10;335(6069):667–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Collins FS, Morgan M, Patrinos A. The Human Genome Project: lessons from large-scale biology. Science. 2003 Apr 11;300(5617):286–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huertas P, Cortés-Ledesma F, Sartori AA, Aguilera A, Jackson SP. CDK targets Sae2 to control DNA-end resection and homologous recombination. Nature. 2008 Oct 2;455(7213):689–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor K, Aardema F. Clinician’s Handbook for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Pearton SJ. Gallium Nitride Processing for Electronics, Sensors and Spintronics. Abernathy CR, Ren F, editors. London: Springer; 2006. XII, 380 p. 241 illus. (Engineering Materials and Processes).

A chapter in an edited book

Goerzen C, Kong Z, Mettler B. A Survey of Motion Planning Algorithms from the Perspective of Autonomous UAV Guidance. In: Valavanis KP, Beard R, Oh P, Ollero A, Piegl LA, Shim H, editors. Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on UAVs, Reno, Nevada, USA June 8–10, 2009. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 65–100.

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 Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Scientists Uncover Why The Mayan Civilization Died Out. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-uncover-why-mayan-civilizations-died-out/

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. District of Columbia: Performance Report Shows Continued Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 May. Report No.: GAO-03-693.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Taylor TE. Characterizing EGFRvIII-independent glioblastoma maintenance [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2016.

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

Lehman S. What Storm? Getting the Paper Out. New York Times. 2017 Mar 15;A2.

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	Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal
Abbreviation	Biomed. Imaging Interv. J.
ISSN (online)	1823-5530
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology