How to format your references using the Journal of Magnetic Resonance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 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	Download the output style file
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]

V. Díaz, Researchers without frontiers, Nature 446 (2007) 466.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Koyama, S. Takemoto, Morning reduction of photosynthetic capacity before midday depression, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4389.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.P. Guilderson, P.J. Reimer, T.A. Brown, Geoscience. The boon and bane of radiocarbon dating, Science 307 (2005) 362–364.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Kuemmeth, S. Ilani, D.C. Ralph, P.L. McEuen, Coupling of spin and orbital motion of electrons in carbon nanotubes, Nature 452 (2008) 448–452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.-G. Elias, Macromolecules, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kurian, P. McCarney, eds., Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Services: Policy, Planning and Method, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Arndt, C. Ganino, Hydrothermal Deposits, in: C. Ganino (Ed.), Metals and Society: An Introduction to Economic Geology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 73–112.

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 Journal of Magnetic Resonance.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Google’s Latest Go Victory Shows Machines Are No Longer Just Learning, They’re Teaching, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/googles-latest-go-victory-shows-machines-are-no-longer-just-learning-theyre-teaching/ (accessed October 30, 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, NASA Travel: Passenger Aircraft Services Annually Cost Taxpayers Millions More Than Commercial Airlines, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.S. Chaves, Novel approach for the creation of thin films and interconnects using single walled carbon nanotubes inkjet technology and bacteria, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

L. Baker, The Green RV, New York Times (2008) D1.

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	Journal of Magnetic Resonance
Abbreviation	J. Magn. Reson.
ISSN (print)	1090-7807
Scope	Biochemistry Biophysics Condensed Matter Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics