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

Smaglik, P., 2003. Ground control. Nature 421, 969.

A journal article with 2 authors

McGuire, J.A., Shen, Y.R., 2006. Ultrafast vibrational dynamics at water interfaces. Science 313, 1945–1948.

A journal article with 3 authors

Creed, M., Pascoli, V.J., Lüscher, C., 2015. Addiction therapy. Refining deep brain stimulation to emulate optogenetic treatment of synaptic pathology. Science 347, 659–664.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, H., Lim, H.-D., Kim, S.-W., Hong, J., Seo, D.-H., Kim, D.-C., Jeon, S., Park, S., Kang, K., 2013. Scalable functionalized graphene nano-platelets as tunable cathodes for high-performance lithium rechargeable batteries. Sci. Rep. 3, 1506.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rochange, C., Uhrig, S., Sainrat, P., 2013. Time-Predictable Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Goldberg, I., Atallah, M.J. (Eds.), 2009. Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 9th International Symposium, PETS 2009, Seattle, WA, USA, August 5-7, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Larcher, R., Priami, C., Romanel, A., 2010. Modelling Self-assembly in BlenX, in: Priami, C., Breitling, R., Gilbert, D., Heiner, M., Uhrmacher, A.M. (Eds.), Transactions on Computational Systems Biology XII: Special Issue on Modeling Methodologies, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 163–198.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Photographer Catches Moment Leopard Drags Big Cat Carcass From Tree And Cannibalizes It [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photographer-catches-moment-leopard-drags-big-cat-carcass-from-tree-and-cannibalizes-it/ (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, 2004. Financial Management Systems: HHS Faces Many Challenges in Implementing Its Unified Financial Management System (No. GAO-04-1089T). 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

Laubacher, T.L., 2016. Simplifying “Inherently Governmental” Functions: Choosing between a Principled Approach or More of the Same (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. Beyoncé Cancels Coachella Performances. New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (McGuire and Shen, 2006; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (McGuire and Shen, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2013)

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