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. Finlay BB (2001) Microbiology. Cracking Listeria’s password. Science 292:1665–1667.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sutton RT, Hodson DLR (2005) Atlantic Ocean forcing of North American and European summer climate. Science 309:115–118.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Udem T, Holzwarth R, Hänsch TW (2002) Optical frequency metrology. Nature 416:233–237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Marlovits TC, Kubori T, Sukhan A, Thomas DR, Galán JE, Unger VM (2004) Structural insights into the assembly of the type III secretion needle complex. Science 306:1040–1042.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Girling P (2013) Operational Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

1. Romano L, Pinto A (2012) Errors in Radiology. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

1. Choi J-W, Godwin A, Balan S, Bryant P, Cong Y, Pawlisz E, Porssa M, Rumpf N, Singh R, Powell K, Brocchini S (2009) Rebridging disulphides: site-specific PEGylation by sequential bis-alkylation. In: Veronese FM (ed) PEGylated Protein Drugs: Basic Science and Clinical Applications. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp 47–73

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. Carpineti A (2016) China Unveils The Fastest Supercomputer In The World. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/china-unveils-the-fastest-supercomputer-in-the-world/. 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 (1977) The Legality of the Release of Construction Grant Funds by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for the University of California’s Proposed School of Dentistry. 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. Kohl JL (2009) The association of critical thinking and participation in living and learning programs: Residential Honors compared to Civic /Social Leadership programs and non -participation in living and learning programs. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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. Koblin J (2017) Ex-Fox Hosts Engage in Feud On Settlement. New York Times B1.

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

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