How to format your references using the Imaging in Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Imaging in Medicine. 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

Hanushek EA. Education. Building on No Child Left Behind. Science. 326(5954), 802–803 (2009).

A journal article with 2 authors

Picollo A, Pusch M. Chloride/proton antiporter activity of mammalian CLC proteins ClC-4 and ClC-5. Nature. 436(7049), 420–423 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

Wahl ER, Ritson DM, Ammann CM. Comment on “Reconstructing past climate from noisy data.” Science. 312(5773), 529; author reply 529 (2006).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang W, Thornton K, Berry A, Long M. Nucleotide variation along the Drosophila melanogaster fourth chromosome. Science. 295(5552), 134–137 (2002).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hooper J, Zalewski A, Watanabe E. Advanced Charting Techniques for High Probability Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Anantharamaiah GM, Goldberg D, editors. Apolipoprotein Mimetics in the Management of Human Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Fusté-Vilella D, Pulido J-M, García-Vidal J, Gheorghiu S. TrafficNet: A L2 Network Architecture for Road-to-Vehicle Communication. In: Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet: Third International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Sitges, Spain, June 6-9, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. García-Vidal J, Cerdà-Alabern L (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 43–61 (2007).

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 Imaging in Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Game of Thrones: The Mountain Has Revealed His Giant Diet … Here’s What It Would Do To You [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/game-thrones-mountain-has-revealed-his-giant-diet-here-s-what-it-would-do-you/.

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. Compensatory Education: Most Chapter 1 Funds in Eight Districts Used for Classroom Services. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen LL. Pacific Psychiatric Group: A Business Plan For a Direct Pay Outpatient Psychiatric Practice. (2017).

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

Button L. We Were a Party of Two, but Never Quite Alone. New York Times, ST6 (2014).

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	Imaging in Medicine
Abbreviation	Imaging Med.
ISSN (print)	1755-5191
ISSN (online)	1755-5205
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology