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. Ahlberg PE. Comment on “The early evolution of the tetrapod humerus.” Science 2004;305:1715; author reply 1715.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cooper VS, Lenski RE. The population genetics of ecological specialization in evolving Escherichia coli populations. Nature 2000;407:736–739.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Halevy I, Peters SE, Fischer WW. Sulfate burial constraints on the Phanerozoic sulfur cycle. Science 2012;337:331–334.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zou D-J, Feinstein P, Rivers AL, et al. Postnatal refinement of peripheral olfactory projections. Science 2004;304:1976–1979.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ryan F. Cognitive Therapy for Addiction. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Dolšek M ed. Protection of Built Environment Against Earthquakes. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kono S. From the Marketers’ Perspective: The Interactive Media Situation in Japan. In: Gerbarg D, editor. Television Goes Digital. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. pp. 57–59.

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. Fang J. Single Tree Grows 40 Kinds Of Fruit. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/single-tree-grows-40-kinds-fruit/. Published July 23, 2014. 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. Head Start: Better Data and Processes Needed to Monitor Underenrollment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tom DM. Impact on achievement with ST math after school instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Davey M. Drop in Violence Gives a City Hope. New York Times 2017: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