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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 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. Zhang W. Voltage-driven spintronic logic gates in graphene nanoribbons. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6320.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chilingarian I, Zolotukhin I. Galaxy evolution. Isolated compact elliptical galaxies: stellar systems that ran away. Science 2015;348:418–421.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Guo G, Wang W, Bradley A. Mismatch repair genes identified using genetic screens in Blm-deficient embryonic stem cells. Nature 2004;429:891–895.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Raizen DM, Zimmerman JE, Maycock MH, et al. Lethargus is a Caenorhabditis elegans sleep-like state. Nature 2008;451:569–572.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Peat J, Elliott E, Baur L, Keena V. Scientific Writing Easy when you know how. London, WC: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2002.

An edited book

1. Beck M. Computing the Continuous Discretely: Integer-Point Enumeration in Polyhedra. (Robins S, editor.) New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Biesinger B, Hu B, Raidl GR. A Variable Neighborhood Search for the Generalized Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands. In: Ochoa G, Chicano F, editors. Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 15th European Conference, EvoCOP 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 8-10, 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. pp. 48–60.

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 Medicine.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Sea Level Rise May Mean That The UK Loses Some Of Its Mountains. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/sea-level-rise-may-mean-that-the-uk-loses-some-of-its-mountains/. Published October 10, 2016. 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. Social Security Numbers: SSNs Are Widely Used by Government and Could Be Better Protected. 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. Bannister RM. To What Extent Are the Grade Configurations of Middle/High Schools and High Schools Related to Student Engagement? [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington University; 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. Kelly T. Send In the Hard Hats. New York Times 2005:1417.

In-text citations

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

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 Medicine
Abbreviation	Magn. Reson. Med.
ISSN (print)	0740-3194
ISSN (online)	1522-2594
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging