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. Corless CL. Medicine. Personalized cancer diagnostics. Science. 2011;334:1217–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Reya T, Clevers H. Wnt signalling in stem cells and cancer. Nature. 2005;434:843–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lavender KL, Davis RE, Owens WB. Mid-depth recirculation observed in the interior Labrador and Irminger seas by direct velocity measurements. Nature. 2000;407:66–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rajagopalan H, Jallepalli PV, Rago C, Velculescu VE, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, et al. Inactivation of hCDC4 can cause chromosomal instability. Nature. 2004;428:77–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bittner M. Temporality: Universals and Variation. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Wilhelm D, Bernard P, editors. Non-coding RNA and the Reproductive System. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Núñez AA, Sáez DA, Cortés CE. Conclusions. In: Sáez DA, Cortés CE, editors. Hybrid Predictive Control for Dynamic Transport Problems. London: Springer; 2013. p. 127–30.

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. Evans K. Most People Would Rather Live Spoiler-Free Than Know The Future. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. No Child Left Behind Act: Assistance from Education Could Help States Better Measure Progress of Students with Limited English Proficiency. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Jul. Report No.: GAO-06-815.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rodriguez JM. Navy Supply Corps officer’s perspective on effective leadership [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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. Kishkovsky S. Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches. New York Times. 2008 Sep 6;A5.

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

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