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. Singmaster D: Obituary: Martin Gardner (1914-2010). Nature 2010; 465:884.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dye C, Williams BG: The population dynamics and control of tuberculosis. Science 2010; 328:856–861.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cho G, Wu Y, Ackerman JL: Detection of hydroxyl ions in bone mineral by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Science 2003; 300:1123–1127.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tanaka K, Mukae N, Dewar H, et al.: Molecular mechanisms of kinetochore capture by spindle microtubules. Nature 2005; 434:987–994.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Schwedt G: Chemie Und Literatur - Ein Ungewöhnlicher Flirt. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2009.

An edited book

1. Cao Z: Low-Power High-Speed ADCs for Nanometer CMOS Integration. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. [Analog Circuits and Signal Processing Series]

A chapter in an edited book

1. El-Metwally S, Ouda OM, Helmy M: Challenges in the Next-Generation Sequencing Field. In Next Generation Sequencing Technologies and Challenges in Sequence Assembly. Edited by Ouda OM, Helmy M. New York, NY: Springer; 2014:45–49. [SpringerBriefs in Systems Biology]

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. Solar Power Installations Grew Almost 50 Percent in 2016 [https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-power-installations-grew-almost-50-percent-in-2016/]

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: ADP Modernization: Health Care Financing Administration’s Software Redesign Contract. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gowda V: Pollination biology and inter-island geographical variation in the mutualistic Heliconia (Heliconiaceae)-hummingbird (Trochilidae) interaction of the Eastern Caribbean Islands. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 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. Greenhouse L: Court Opens Campaign Law to Challenges. New York Times 2006:A16.

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