How to format your references using the Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences citation style

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

Marwan W. Systems biology. Amoeba-inspired network design. Science 2010; 327:419–420.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wahl ER, Morrill C. Climate change. Toward understanding and predicting monsoon patterns. Science 2010; 328:437–438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wieman CE, Adams WK, Perkins KK. PHYSICS. PhET: simulations that enhance learning. Science 2008; 322:682–683.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Molofsky AV, Slutsky SG, Joseph NM, et al. Increasing p16INK4a expression decreases forebrain progenitors and neurogenesis during ageing. Nature 2006; 443:448–452.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster MC. Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments. 2010

An edited book

Andreß H-J. Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys. 2013

A chapter in an edited book

Nhat PV, Leszczynski J, Nguyen MT. Growth Mechanism, Energetics and CO Affinities of Vanadium Doped Gold Clusters, AunV with n = 1−20. Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry III 2014:107–149.

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 in Medical Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. HIV Latent Reservoir Much Larger Than Thought. ; 2013.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-latent-reservoir-much-larger-thought/ (Accessed: Oct. 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

Government Accountability Office. Electronic Government: Planned e-Authentication Gateway Faces Formidable Development Challenges. 2003

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Patel VM. Sparse and redundant representations for inverse problems and recognition. 2010

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

Murphy MJO. A Look at Past Stories and Articles in The Times. New York Times 2015:C26.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 in Medical Sciences
ISSN (print)	1347-3182
ISSN (online)	1880-2206
Scope