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. Mesot J (2006) Applied physics. The neutron spin-echo technique at full strength. Science 312:1888–1889.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Si Q, Steglich F (2010) Heavy fermions and quantum phase transitions. Science 329:1161–1166.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sta Ana JL, Frankel MS, Berger KM (2009) Biosecurity. Educating scientists about dual use. Science 326:1193.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Janes KA, Albeck JG, Gaudet S, Sorger PK, Lauffenburger DA, Yaffe MB (2005) A systems model of signaling identifies a molecular basis set for cytokine-induced apoptosis. Science 310:1646–1653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Terré M, Pischella M, Vivier E (2013) Wireless Telecommunication Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

1. Giovannini M, Maffeis C, Molinari E, Scaglioni S (2006) Salute & equilibrio nutrizionale. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

1. Berthold MR (2012) From Patterns to Discoveries. In: Gaber MM (ed) Journeys to Data Mining: Experiences from 15 Renowned Researchers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–49

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. Fang J (2015) Bone Tissue Regrown Using Proteins from Stem Cells. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bone-tissue-regrown-using-proteins-stem-cells/. 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 (2002) Human Services: Federal Approval and Funding Processes for States’ Information Systems. 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. Dandavate R (2006) Building Cultural Understanding Through Cultural Exchange. 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. Hu W, Remnick N (2015) Grieving Family Worries, Wondering How a Bronx Man Got Legionnaires’. New York Times A22.

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