How to format your references using the Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and 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	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

1. Abbott A (2003) Anthropologists cast doubt on human DNA evidence. Nature 423:468.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bollinger JM Jr, Matthews ML (2010) Biochemistry. Remote enzyme microsurgery. Science 327:1337–1338.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Turalska M, West BJ, Grigolini P (2013) Role of committed minorities in times of crisis. Sci Rep 3:1371.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Gong Y, Han T, Yin X, Yang G, Zhuang R, Chen Y, Lu Z (2014) Prevalence of depressive symptoms and work-related risk factors among nurses in public hospitals in southern China: a cross-sectional study. Sci Rep 4:7109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lane C (2011) Magnolia. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

1. Fleischhacker WW, Brooks DJ (2005) Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pacyna J (2011) Environmental Emissions of Selected Persistent Organic Pollutants. In: Quante M, Ebinghaus R, Flöser G (eds) Persistent Pollution – Past, Present and Future: School of Environmental Research - Organized by Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–56

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 Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J (2015) New Type Of Mid-Sized Black Hole Found. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-type-mid-sized-black-hole-found-distant-galaxy/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1992) Apprenticeship Training: Administration, Use, and Equal Opportunity. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nawpar RT (2010) Uranyl glass for thermometry. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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. Feeney K (2010) No Ordinary Greek Delights. New York Times NJ8.

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 Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine
Abbreviation	MAGMA
ISSN (print)	0968-5243
ISSN (online)	1352-8661
Scope	Biophysics Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology