How to format your references using the Magnetic Resonance Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 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]

Purnell BA. Parenting. A legacy that transcends genes. Introduction. Science 2014;345:742–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Carson MJ, Lo D. Immunology. The push-me pull-you of T cell activation. Science 2001;293:618–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jensen RB, Carreira A, Kowalczykowski SC. Purified human BRCA2 stimulates RAD51-mediated recombination. Nature 2010;467:678–83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gabaix X, Gopikrishnan P, Plerou V, Stanley HE. A theory of power-law distributions in financial market fluctuations. Nature 2003;423:267–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Padilla E. Substation Automation Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Sutcliffe G, Voronkov A, editors. Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning: 12th International Conference, LPAR 2005, Montego Bay, Jamaica, December 2-6, 2005. Proceedings. vol. 3835. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Westphal M, Emami P. Pineal Lesions: A Multidisciplinary Challenge. In: Schramm J, editor. Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery: Volume 42, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 79–102.

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 Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Blog post

[1]

Evans K. Can You Really Be Addicted To Love? IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/can-you-really-be-addicted-to-love/ (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. Title I: Education Needs to Monitor States’ Scoring of Assessments. Washington, DC: 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

[1]

Bai J. Development and validation of the acculturative stress scale for Chinese College Students in the United States (ASSCS). Doctoral dissertation. 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]

Shear MD, Pear R. Former Obama Aides Lead Opposition to the Effort to Repeal the Health Law. New York Times 2017:A18.

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	Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Abbreviation	Magn. Reson. Imaging
ISSN (print)	0730-725X
Scope	Biophysics Biomedical Engineering Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging