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. Hengartner MO. The biochemistry of apoptosis. Nature 2000;407:770–776.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rosen JM, Jordan CT. The increasing complexity of the cancer stem cell paradigm. Science 2009;324:1670–1673.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Fowler JH, Johnson T, Smirnov O. Human behaviour: Egalitarian motive and altruistic punishment. Nature 2005;433:1 p following 32; discussion following 32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kosaka H, Inagaki T, Rikitake Y, Imamura H, Mitsumori Y, Edamatsu K. Spin state tomography of optically injected electrons in a semiconductor. Nature 2009;457:702–705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Schwartz RA, Carew MG, Maksimenko T. Micro Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Wang L, Adeli E, Wang Q, Shi Y, Suk H-I eds. Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 7th International Workshop, MLMI 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 17, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lieten GK, Strehl T. Street Child Interventions and Policies. In: Strehl T, editor. Child Street Life: An Inside View of Hazards and Expectations of Street Children in Peru. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. pp. 45–53.

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. Andrew E. Genetically Engineered Bacteria Could Help Tackle Obesity. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/genetically-engineered-bacteria-could-help-tackle-obesity/. Published April 10, 2015. 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. Federal Research and Development: Contributions to and Results of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rodriguez JM. A recruitment campaign for Latino non-kin foster parents: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach; 2011.

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. Greenhouse L. JUSTICES SAY E.P.A. HAS POWER TO ACT ON HARMFUL GASES. New York Times 2007:A1.

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