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. Harmon L: Journal club. An evolutionary biologist ponders the pace of evolution. Nature 2010; 463:1003.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chin G, Culotta E: The science of inequality. What the numbers tell us. Introduction. Science 2014; 344:818–821.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Xu L, Yin M-L, Liu SF: Ag(x)@WO₃ core-shell nanostructure for LSP enhanced chemical sensors. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6745.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Del Fresno C, Saz-Leal P, Enamorado M, et al.: DNGR-1 in dendritic cells limits tissue damage by dampening neutrophil recruitment. Science 2018; 362:351–356.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Purkis S, Klemas V: Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Hannemann K, Seiler F (Eds): Shock Waves: 26th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Volume 1. 1st edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Krupa T: Employment and Serious Mental Health Disabilities. In Work Accommodation and Retention in Mental Health. Edited by Schultz IZ, Rogers ES. New York, NY: Springer; 2011:91–101.

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. Overfishing Is Driving European Fish Stocks To Extinction [https://www.iflscience.com/environment/overfishing-driving-european-fish-stocks-extinction/]

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: Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fadamin A: Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemistry of the Ruthenium Schiff Base Complex [(Saloph)Ru(NO)Cl]. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 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

1. Kelly C: It’s Not Billions, But It Can Help Rescue an Artist. New York Times 2012:BU1.

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

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