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]

D. A. Garsin, “Microbiology. Peptide signals sense and destroy target cells,” Science, vol. 306, no. 5705, pp. 2202–2203, Dec. 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Léopold and S. Layalle, “Development biology. Linking nutrition and tissue growth,” Science, vol. 312, no. 5778, pp. 1317–1318, Jun. 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. L. Royer, R. A. Berner, and J. Park, “Climate sensitivity constrained by CO2 concentrations over the past 420 million years,” Nature, vol. 446, no. 7135, pp. 530–532, Mar. 2007.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Pérez-Sieira, M. López, R. Nogueiras, and S. Tovar, “Regulation of NR4A by nutritional status, gender, postnatal development and hormonal deficiency,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 4264, Mar. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. K. Das, Mobile Handset Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

E. Deindl and C. Kupatt, Eds., Therapeutic Neovascularization–Quo Vadis? Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. P. Baxley and G. H. Boston, “Always Carrying the Load,” in (In)visible Presence: Feminist Counter-Narratives of Young Adult Literature by Women of Color, G. H. Boston, Ed. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2014, pp. 49–63.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, “Evidence For Ancient Mega-Tsunamis Discovered On Mars,” IFLScience, 19-May-2016. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/evidence-ancient-ocean-mars-may-have-been-washed-away-mega-tsunamis/. [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, “Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-06-863T, Jul. 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. S. Pearson, “Relationship Banking in a Competitive Environment With and Without Information Sharing: The Importance of Credit Bureaus in Microfinance,” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 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

[1]

B. Brantley, “An Odder Couple Takes the Stage,” New York Times, p. C1, 11-Oct-2016.

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