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

Shimono M. Non-uniformity of cell density and networks in the monkey brain. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2541.

A journal article with 2 authors

Santolík O, Chum J. Planetary science. The origin of plasmaspheric hiss. Science. 2009;324(5928):729-730.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ash C, Foley J, Pennisi E. Microbial ecology. Lost in microbial space. Special section introduction. Science. 2008;320(5879):1027.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Angers RC, Kang HE, Napier D, et al. Prion strain mutation determined by prion protein conformational compatibility and primary structure. Science. 2010;328(5982):1154-1158.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Häussler-Combe U. Computational Methods for Reinforced Concrete Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2014.

An edited book

Johnson T, Fink C, Schönberg SO, Reiser MF, eds. Dual Energy CT in Clinical Practice. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Sillesen H. Vascular Hemodynamics. In: AbuRahma AF, Bandyk DF, eds. Noninvasive Vascular Diagnosis: A Practical Guide to Therapy. Springer; 2013:45-53.

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

Andrew E. Researchers Produce The First Synthetic Gasoline From Plants. 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. Facial Recognition Technology: Commercial Uses, Privacy Issues, and Applicable Federal Law. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pearson RS. Relationship Banking in a Competitive Environment With and Without Information Sharing: The Importance of Credit Bureaus in Microfinance. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2008.

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

Yablonsky L. A Vote for Small. New York Times. September 2, 2012:ST3.

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