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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. Wilson RI (2007) Eppendorf 2007 winner. Neural circuits underlying chemical perception. Science 318:584–585.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Lowrance WW, Collins FS (2007) Ethics. Identifiability in genomic research. Science 317:600–602.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Schmith T, Johansen S, Thejll P (2007) Comment on “A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise.” Science 317:1866; author reply 1866.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
1. Bunker DE, Declerck F, Bradford JC, Colwell RK, Perfecto I, Phillips OL, Sankaran M, Naeem S (2005) Species loss and aboveground carbon storage in a tropical forest. Science 310:1029–1031.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Smith CL (2010) Advanced Process Control. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
1. Rodrigues M (2015) Advanced Applications of Natural Language Processing for Performing Information Extraction. Springer International Publishing, Cham
A chapter in an edited book
1. Fischer M, Meyer S, Oswald M, Claudel P, Karst F (2013) Metabolic Engineering of Monoterpenoid Production in Yeast. In: Bach TJ, Rohmer M (eds) Isoprenoid Synthesis in Plants and Microorganisms: New Concepts and Experimental Approaches. Springer, New York, NY, pp 65–71

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. Andrew E (2015) Wild Chimps In Uganda Have Learned To Look Both Ways When Crossing The Roads. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humans-wild-chimps-uganda-look-both-ways-when-crossing-roads/. 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 (2000) Federal Railroad Administration: Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program--Revisions. 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. Zhao X (2006) Exfoliation Corrosion Kinetics of High Strength Aluminum Alloys. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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. Goodman PS (2017) As U.S. Raises Walls on Trade, Allies Move On. New York Times A1.

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 titleMagnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine
AbbreviationMAGMA
ISSN (print)0968-5243
ISSN (online)1352-8661
ScopeBiophysics
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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