How to format your references using the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences. 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

Coyne JA. Evolution. Ernst Mayr (1904-2005). Science. 2005;307(5713):1212-1213.

A journal article with 2 authors

Titus S, Bosch X. Tie funding to research integrity. Nature. 2010;466(7305):436-437.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mietto P, Avanzini M, Rolandi G. Palaeontology: Human footprints in Pleistocene volcanic ash. Nature. 2003;422(6928):133.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Belonoshko AB, Ramzan M, Mao HK, Ahuja R. Atomic diffusion in solid molecular hydrogen. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2340.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dos Santos EC Jr, Cabral da Silva ER. ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS CONVERTERS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Al-Khayri JM, Jain SM, Johnson DV, eds. Date Palm Genetic Resources and Utilization: Volume 1: Africa and the Americas. Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Gill ER. Economic Justice and Freedom of Conscience. In: Stacy HM, Lee WC, eds. Economic Justice: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives. Springer Netherlands; 2013:49-62.

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 Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences.

Blog post

Hamilton K. The Black Dragons of the Sea. IFLScience. Published September 16, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/black-dragons-sea-kh-still-looking-images/

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. Space Station: Actions Under Way to Manage Cost, but Significant Challenges Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Knight AK. Beyond Leveraged Purchasing: Using Strengthened Buyer/Supplier Relationships to Accomplish Sustainable Strategic Sourcing and Smarter Single Source Acquisitions. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Greenhouse L. Supreme Court Allows Arizona To Use New Voter-ID Procedure. New York Times. October 21, 2006:A10.

In-text citations

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

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 Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Med. Imaging Radiat. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1939-8654
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology