How to format your references using the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 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

[1]

T. F. Keenan, “Phenology: Spring greening in a warming world,” Nature, vol. 526, no. 7571, pp. 48–49, Oct. 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Fields and M. Johnston, “Genomics. A crisis in postgenomic nomenclature,” Science, vol. 296, no. 5568, pp. 671–672, Apr. 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. W. Taylor, R. W. Thacker, and U. Hentschel, “Genetics. Evolutionary insights from sponges,” Science, vol. 316, no. 5833, pp. 1854–1855, Jun. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. I. Koleilat, I. J. Kramer, C. T. O. Wong, S. M. Thon, A. J. Labelle, S. Hoogland, and E. H. Sargent, “Folded-light-path colloidal quantum dot solar cells,” Sci. Rep., vol. 3, p. 2166, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. F. G. Dickson, Personal Protective Equipment for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Hazards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

[1]

E. David, K. Larson, A. Rogers, O. Shehory, and S. Stein, Eds., Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets: AMEC 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 10, 2010, and TADA 2010, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 7, 2010 Revised Selected Papers, vol. 118. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. B. Hansen, R. Brincker, and M. L. Aenlle, “Detection of Mass Change on a Glass Plate,” in Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013, R. Allemang, J. De Clerck, C. Niezrecki, and A. Wicks, Eds. New York, NY: Springer, 2014, pp. 61–66.

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 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “Planetary And Human Health - One Coin, Two Sides,” IFLScience, 19-Jul-2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/planetary-and-human-health-one-coin-two-sides/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Emergency Communications: Various Challenges Likely to Slow Implementation of a Public Safety Broadband Network,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-343, Feb. 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. B. Carman, “Leadership style and church attendance: An ex post facto study of Churches of Christ in Texas,” Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2013.

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

[1]

M. M. Grynbaum and K. Kelly, “Ousted Federal Prosecutor, a Trump Critic, Will Join CNN as an Analyst,” New York Times, p. B4, 21-Sep-2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
Abbreviation	IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging
ISSN (print)	0278-0062
Scope	Computer Science Applications Software Electrical and Electronic Engineering Radiological and Ultrasound Technology