How to format your references using the Journal of Medical Ultrasonics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medical Ultrasonics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Brenner SE. Be prepared for the big genome leak. Nature. 2013;498:139.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Webster CR, Heymsfield AJ. Water isotope ratios D/H, 18O/16O, 17O/16O in and out of clouds map dehydration pathways. Science. 2003;302:1742–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chen G, Zhuchenko O, Kuspa A. Immune-like phagocyte activity in the social amoeba. Science. 2007;317:678–81.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Patil V, Capone A, Strauf S, Yang E-H. Improved photoresponse with enhanced photoelectric contribution in fully suspended graphene photodetectors. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2791.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dean JR. Practical Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy: Dean/Plasma. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Janas J, Kurasov P, Naboko S, Laptev A, Stolz G, editors. Methods of Spectral Analysis in Mathematical Physics: Conference on Operator Theory, Analysis and Mathematical Physics (OTAMP) 2006, Lund, Sweden. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Verburg PH, Kok K, Pontius RG Jr, Veldkamp A. Modeling Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. In: Lambin EF, Geist H, editors. Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Local Processes and Global Impacts. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 117–35.

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 Ultrasonics.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. “Pristine’ Landscapes Haven’t Existed For Thousands Of Years, Says New Study [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/pristine-landscapes-havent-existed-for-thousands-of-years-says-new-study/

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. Information Technology: Better Management of Interdependencies between Programs Supporting 2020 Census Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Aug. Report No.: GAO-16-623.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pederson HM. Decreasing blame and building therapeutic alliance: Clarifying central change processes in functional family therapy [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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. Yablonsky L. Clay Mates. New York Times. 2010 Aug 22;M2160.

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 Medical Ultrasonics
Abbreviation	J. Med. Ultrason. (2001)
ISSN (print)	1346-4523
ISSN (online)	1613-2254
Scope	General Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging