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]

Macilwain C. World Bank is urged to give greater priority to science. Nature 2000;407:276.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Marx FG, Uhen MD. Climate, critters, and cetaceans: Cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales. Science 2010;327:993–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wu B, Ooi TL, He ZJ. Perceiving distance accurately by a directional process of integrating ground information. Nature 2004;428:73–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wannamaker PE, Caldwell TG, Jiracek GR, Maris V, Hill GJ, Ogawa Y, et al. Fluid and deformation regime of an advancing subduction system at Marlborough, New Zealand. Nature 2009;460:733–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Morris SA. Food and Package Engineering. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Nilius B, Gudermann T, Jahn R, Lill R, Petersen OH, de Tombe PP, editors. Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology. vol. 168. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ma D, Bondade R. Power Loss in Switched-Capacitor Power Converters: Causes and Analysis. In: Bondade R, editor. Reconfigurable Switched-Capacitor Power Converters: Principles and Designs for Self-Powered Microsystems, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 59–69.

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]

Fang J. Watch the First Flight of NASA’s Flying Saucer. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-first-flight-nasas-flying-saucer/ (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. Lack of Effective Coordinated or Centralized Management Control of Closed-Circuit Television Used in DOD for Training and Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jones E. Leadership Practices in K-12 Public Schools for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: A Qualitative Study. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2019.

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. Guardian Angels Welcome in Greenport. New York Times 2006:14LI5.

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