How to format your references using the Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. 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

Dolan, R.J., 2002. Emotion, cognition, and behavior. Science 298, 1191–1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevenson, I.R., Bryant, D.M., 2000. Climate change and constraints on breeding. Nature 406, 366–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Inaba, M., Yamanaka, H., Kondo, S., 2012. Pigment pattern formation by contact-dependent depolarization. Science 335, 677.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pancost, R.D., Steart, D.S., Handley, L., Collinson, M.E., Hooker, J.J., Scott, A.C., Grassineau, N.V., Glasspool, I.J., 2007. Increased terrestrial methane cycling at the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Nature 449, 332–335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Landragin, F., 2013. Man-Machine Dialogue. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Clarke, D., Noble, J., Wrigstad, T. (Eds.), 2013. Aliasing in Object-Oriented Programming. Types, Analysis and Verification, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson, R.A., Yang, Y., Aguiar, E., Rider, A., Chawla, N.V., 2013. ALIVE: A Multi-relational Link Prediction Environment for the Healthcare Domain, in: Washio, T., Luo, J. (Eds.), Emerging Trends in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2012 International Workshops: DMHM, GeoDoc, 3Clust, and DSDM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 29 – June 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 36–46.

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 Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2016. Wet Asteroids Brought Water To A Magma-Covered Ancient Moon [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/wet-asteroids-brought-water-magma-covered-ancient-moon/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1995. Highway Signs: Conversion to Metric Units Could Be Costly (No. RCED-95-156). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tengco, M.A., 2017. Quality Home Care: Providing Personal Care and Homemaking Services for Seniors in the Community (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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., 2017. Searching for the Mainstream. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dolan, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dolan, 2002; Stevenson and Bryant, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Stevenson and Bryant, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Pancost et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Abbreviation	Comput. Med. Imaging Graph.
ISSN (print)	0895-6111
Scope	Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Health Informatics Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology