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

Bernath, P.F., 2002. Laser chemistry. Water vapor gets excited. Science 297, 943–945.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galán, J.E., Wolf-Watz, H., 2006. Protein delivery into eukaryotic cells by type III secretion machines. Nature 444, 567–573.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cymes, G.D., Ni, Y., Grosman, C., 2005. Probing ion-channel pores one proton at a time. Nature 438, 975–980.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nepstad, D., McGrath, D., Alencar, A., Barros, A.C., Carvalho, G., Santilli, M., Vera Diaz, M. del C., 2002. Environment. Frontier governance in Amazonia. Science 295, 629–631.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mascia, L., 2011. Polymers in Industry from A-Z. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Priol, T., Vanneschi, M. (Eds.), 2008. From Grids to Service and Pervasive Computing. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Franklin, M.E., Tolin, D.F., 2007. What Should be Done?, in: Tolin, D.F. (Ed.), Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 51–60.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Half Of All Stars Could Exist Outside of Galaxies [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/half-all-stars-could-exist-outside-galaxies/ (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, 2012. Aviation Safety: FAA Is Taking Steps to Improve Data, but Challenges for Managing Safety Risks Remain (No. GAO-12-660T). 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

Thiss, P.J., 2009. Effects of dedicated academic support services on the persistence rates of California Community College student-athletes (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Education of a Point Guard Comes Full Circle. New York Times B18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bernath, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bernath, 2002; Galán and Wolf-Watz, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Galán and Wolf-Watz, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Nepstad et al., 2002)

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

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