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

Nossal GJV. Mentors and manipulation. Nature. 2004 Jun 24;429(6994):811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gross RA, Kalra B. Biodegradable polymers for the environment. Science. 2002 Aug 2;297(5582):803–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paolo FS, Fricker HA, Padman L. Ice sheets. Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating. Science. 2015 Apr 17;348(6232):327–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Morris MC, Kaiser P, Rudyak S, Baskerville C, Watson MH, Reed SI. Cks1-dependent proteasome recruitment and activation of CDC20 transcription in budding yeast. Nature. 2003 Jun 26;423(6943):1009–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Concrete and Construction Cl. Beispiele zur Bemessung Nach Eurocode 2. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2011.

An edited book

Lustig BA, Brody BA, McKenny GP, editors. Altering Nature: Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. X, 346 p. (Philosophy and Medicine; vol. 98).

A chapter in an edited book

Jomaah J, Ghibaudo G. Low Frequency Noise in Double-Gate SOI CMOS Devices. In: Amara A, Rozeau O, editors. Planar Double-Gate Transistor: From Technology to Circuit. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 89–104.

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]. Coffee Might Help You Live Longer. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/coffee-even-decaf-might-help-you-live-longer/

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. U.S. Preparations for the 1983 Regional Administrative Radio Conference. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Mar. Report No.: 120767.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Berbery ML. Predictors of White adoptive parents’ cultural and racial socialization behaviors with their Asian adopted children [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

Greenhouse L. Resetting the Post-Scalia Supreme Court. New York Times. 2016 Feb 18;A25.

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