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]

Schier AF. The maternal-zygotic transition: death and birth of RNAs. Science 2007;316:406–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Say RF, Fuchs G. Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase may be an ancestral gluconeogenic enzyme. Nature 2010;464:1077–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schibler J, Elsner J, Schlumbaum A. Incorporation of aurochs into a cattle herd in Neolithic Europe: single event or breeding? Sci Rep 2014;4:5798.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Meyer JC, Geim AK, Katsnelson MI, Novoselov KS, Booth TJ, Roth S. The structure of suspended graphene sheets. Nature 2007;446:60–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lalanne C. Mechanical Shock. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Ven P-H van de, Doecke B, editors. Literary Praxis: A Conversational Inquiry into the Teaching of Literature. vol. 5. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Joshee R, Sihra K. Shakti as a Liberatory and Educative Force for Hindu Women. In: Gross Z, Davies L, Diab A-K, editors. Gender, Religion and Education in a Chaotic Postmodern World, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 73–82.

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]

Andrew E. Scientists Develop Technique To Produce Self-Assembling Anticancer Molecules In Minutes. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-develop-technique-produce-self-assembling-anticancer-molecules/ (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. Citizenship and Residency Requirements for Government Student Loans. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lund BC. Physiological response to cycling at different pedal rates during high intensity interval training. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Murphy MJO. ‘Sesame Street’ When It Started. New York Times 2015:C25.

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

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