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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal Of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (JMRI). 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. Prantzos N: Cosmology: Rare isotopic insight into the Universe. Nature 2016; 529:33–34.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Stevenson IR, Bryant DM: Climate change and constraints on breeding. Nature 2000; 406:366–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Constância M, Kelsey G, Reik W: Resourceful imprinting. Nature 2004; 432:53–57.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Limpens E, Franken C, Smit P, Willemse J, Bisseling T, Geurts R: LysM domain receptor kinases regulating rhizobial Nod factor-induced infection. Science 2003; 302:630–633.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lyatkher VM: Seismic Loads. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Claesen L, Sanz-Pascual M-T, Reis R, Sarmiento-Reyes A (Eds): VLSI-SoC: Internet of Things Foundations: 22nd IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2014, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, October 6-8, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Volume 464. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. [IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology]

A chapter in an edited book

1. Das T, Chakraborty S: Bio-Microfluidics: Overview. In Microfluidics and Microfabrication. Edited by Chakraborty S. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010:131–179.

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 Imaging.

Blog post

1. 55 million-year-old ancestor of lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!) has been discovered

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: Satellite Control: Long-Term Planning and Adoption of Commercial Practices Could Improve DOD’s Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dalton R: The story of Huo Yuanjia and the narrative of national humiliation in post-Mao China. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Eligon J, Bosman J: Kansas Governor’s Tenure May Serve as a Warning for Conservatives. New York Times 2017:A12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Imaging
Abbreviation	J. Magn. Reson. Imaging
ISSN (print)	1053-1807
ISSN (online)	1522-2586
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging