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. von Hohenheim T (2000) A leap of faith. Nature 407:949.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Vigevani L, Valcárcel J (2014) Molecular biology. A splicing magic bullet. Science 345:624–625.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Berciu M, Rappoport TG, Jankó B (2005) Manipulating spin and charge in magnetic semiconductors using superconducting vortices. Nature 435:71–75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Zhu F, Gujar H, Gordon JR, Haynes KF, Potter MF, Palli SR (2013) Bed bugs evolved unique adaptive strategy to resist pyrethroid insecticides. Sci Rep 3:1456.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Zeng K, Lou W, Li M (2011) Multihop Wireless Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

1. Chen Y, Immorlica N (2013) Web and Internet Economics: 9th International Conference, WINE 2013, Cambridge, MA, USA, December 11-14, 2013, Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

1. Glick JB, Rupani R (2015) A 58 Year Old with Sun Damaged Skin. In: Rupani R (ed) Clinical Cases in Integrative Dermatology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 23–32

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 (2017) SpaceX Will Make History With Its Next Launch Tomorrow. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-will-make-history-with-its-next-launch-tomorrow/. 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 (1997) Proprietary Schools: Analysis of Comments Received From an Association of Schools. 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. Monk KJ (2014) Effects of distractors and force feedback on an aimed movement task in a CDTI environment. 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. Barron J (2016) Vintage ‘Glass Menagerie’ Performance Will Return to Air. New York Times A23.

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