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

Baldauf SL. The deep roots of eukaryotes. Science. 2003;300(5626):1703-1706.

A journal article with 2 authors

Polyak VJ, Asmerom Y. Late Holocene climate and cultural changes in the southwestern United States. Science. 2001;294(5540):148-151.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ince DC, Hatton L, Graham-Cumming J. The case for open computer programs. Nature. 2012;482(7386):485-488.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu Y, Reid MJ, Zheng XW, Menten KM. The distance to the Perseus spiral arm in the Milky Way. Science. 2006;311(5757):54-57.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chateigner D. Combined Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Zalesny R, Papadopoulos MG, Mezey PG, Leszczynski J, eds. Linear-Scaling Techniques in Computational Chemistry and Physics: Methods and Applications. Vol 13. Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Oue H, Limin SG. Local-Level Water Conservation Assessment in the Upstream Watershed Based on Land-Use Scenarios. In: Nakagami K, Kubota J, Setiawan BI, eds. Sustainable Water Management: New Perspectives, Design, and Practices. Springer; 2016:53-64.

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. New Dog Robot Can Run and Climb Just Like The Real Thing. 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. Review of the Emergency School Assistance Program Community Grants Awarded to the Nashville Urban League by the Office of Education, HEW. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warren PD. Characterizing Polymers for Cardiovascular Devices. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2012.

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

Saslow L. Jones Beach Tower Set for Restoration. New York Times. May 18, 2008:LI11.

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

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