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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medical Ultrasound. 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]

Vernes SC. Genome wide identification of fruitless targets suggests a role in upregulating genes important for neural circuit formation. Sci Rep 2014;4:4412.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bellingham JG, Rajan K. Robotics in remote and hostile environments. Science 2007;318:1098–102.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Batista FD, Iber D, Neuberger MS. B cells acquire antigen from target cells after synapse formation. Nature 2001;411:489–94.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pagola S, Stephens PW, Bohle DS, Kosar AD, Madsen SK. The structure of malaria pigment beta-haematin. Nature 2000;404:307–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Balmori D. Drawing and Reinventing Landscape. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Kenyon GN. The Perception of Quality: Mapping Product and Service Quality to Consumer Perceptions. London: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sonobe T, Suenaga K, Igarashi A. Automatic Memory Management Based on Program Transformation Using Ownership. In: Garrigue J, editor. Programming Languages and Systems: 12th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2014, Singapore, Singapore, November 17-19, 2014, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 58–77.

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 Ultrasound.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Head Transplant Surgeon Reveals Bizarre New Studies And Breakthroughs. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/head-transplant-surgeon-reveals-bizarre-new-studies-and-breakthroughs/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Telecommunications: The Effect of Competition From Satellite Providers on Cable Rates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dubin-Thaler BJ. Evidence for hierarchical control of conserved, discrete motility types in crawling motility. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 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]

Saslow L. Sorting Out Their Goals, and Options. New York Times 2009:WE6.

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 Ultrasound
Abbreviation	J. Med. Ultrasound
ISSN (print)	0929-6441
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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