How to format your references using the Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A. 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

Kronfeld AS. Physics. The weight of the world is quantum chromodynamics. Science. 2008;322(5905):1198-1199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones JDG, Dangl JL. The plant immune system. Nature. 2006;444(7117):323-329.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carbotte SM, Small C, Donnelly K. The influence of ridge migration on the magmatic segmentation of mid-ocean ridges. Nature. 2004;429(6993):743-746.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li J, Xiao X, Xu X, et al. Activated boron nitride as an effective adsorbent for metal ions and organic pollutants. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3208.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welker RW, Nagarajan R, Newberg CE. Contamination and ESD Control in High-Technology Manufacturing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Orshansky M. Design for Manufacturability and Statistical Design: A Constructive Approach. (Nassif SR, Boning D, eds.). Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Dore AJ, Werner M, Hall JR, et al. Regional Scale Modelling of the Concentration and Deposition of Oxidised and Reduced Nitrogen in the UK. In: Sutton MA, Mason KE, Sheppard LJ, Sverdrup H, Haeuber R, Hicks WK, eds. Nitrogen Deposition, Critical Loads and Biodiversity. Springer Netherlands; 2014:39-47.

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 Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A.

Blog post

Luntz S. Scientists Overwhelmingly Reject Chemtrail Conspiracy Theories. IFLScience.

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Unmanaged Risks Threaten Success. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warfield BS. Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2017.

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

Williams J. Boom Time in Nollywood. New York Times. October 13, 2017:BR4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A
Abbreviation	Concepts Magn. Reson. Part A Bridg. Educ. Res.
ISSN (print)	1546-6086
ISSN (online)	1552-5023
Scope	Spectroscopy