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]

Cleland AN. PHYSICS. Pumping up the quantum. Science 2015;350:280.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Huxley A, Green AG. Physics. Electrons acquire a split personality in bismuth. Science 2007;317:1694–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fradkin E, Kivelson SA, Oganesyan V. Physics. Electron nematic phase in a transition metal oxide. Science 2007;315:196–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gao H, Hu G, Zhang Q, Zhang S, Jiang X, He Q. Pretreatment with chemotherapeutics for enhanced nanoparticles accumulation in tumor: the potential role of G2 cycle retention effect. Sci Rep 2014;4:4492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Baker WL, Marn MV, Zawada CC. The Price Advantage. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Hodicky J, editor. Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Second International Workshop, MESAS 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, April 29-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 9055. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wang JG, Yang J. The New Membership of Loan Club—P2P Online Lending. In: Yang J, editor. Financing without Bank Loans: New Alternatives for Funding SMEs in China, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 55–72.

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]

Taub B. Young Human Blood Rejuvenates Old Mice. IFLScience 2016.

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. Land Management Systems: Status of BLM’s Actions to Improve Information Technology Management. 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]

Herman GS. Terahertz local oscillator via difference frequency generation in iii-v semiconductors using frequency stabilized lasers. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2013.

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]

Crow K. Brando: Off the Waterfront, Into the Seminar Rooms. New York Times 2000:1410.

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