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]

K. Kolaja, “Drug discovery: computer model predicts side effects,” Nature, vol. 486, no. 7403, pp. 326–327, Jun. 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. B. V. Ramos and A. Laederach, “Molecular biology: A second layer of information in RNA,” Nature, vol. 505, no. 7485, pp. 621–622, Jan. 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Lyko, B. H. Ramsahoye, and R. Jaenisch, “DNA methylation in Drosophila melanogaster,” Nature, vol. 408, no. 6812, pp. 538–540, Nov. 2000.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Shalizi, B. Gaudillière, Z. Yuan, J. Stegmüller, T. Shirogane, Q. Ge, Y. Tan, B. Schulman, J. W. Harper, and A. Bonni, “A calcium-regulated MEF2 sumoylation switch controls postsynaptic differentiation,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5763, pp. 1012–1017, Feb. 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Sofronas, Analytical Troubleshooting of Process Machinery and Pressure Vessels. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

[1]

H. G. Bock, E. Kostina, H. X. Phu, and R. Rannacher, Eds., Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, March 6–10, 2006, Hanoi, Vietnam. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Y. K. Chua and S. Banerjee, “Analyzing Users’ Trust for Online Health Rumors,” in Digital Libraries: Providing Quality Information: 17th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2015, Seoul, Korea, December 9-12, 2015. Proceedings, R. B. Allen, J. Hunter, and M. L. Zeng, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 33–38.

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]

K. Hamilton, “Scientist At Work: Revealing The Secret Lives Of Urban Rats,” IFLScience, 13-Sep-2016. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientist-at-work-revealing-the-secret-lives-of-urban-rats/. [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, “Standard Budget Classifications--Proposed Functions and Subfunctions,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, PAD-76-49, Aug. 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. M. Shetter, “Assaulting the littorals: The development and evolution of a dedicated American amphibious assault force,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

[1]

S. Masood and B. Hubbard, “Pakistan Approves Military Hero to Head a Tricky Saudi-Led Alliance,” New York Times, p. A8, 02-Apr-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