How to format your references using the Journal of Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Imaging. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Smaglik, P. High Road to Scotland. Nature 2004, 432, 128–129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Striedter, G.F.; Srinivasan, S. BRAIN EVOLUTION. Knowing When to Fold Them. Science 2015, 349, 31–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gaucher, E.A.; Govindarajan, S.; Ganesh, O.K. Palaeotemperature Trend for Precambrian Life Inferred from Resurrected Proteins. Nature 2008, 451, 704–707.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dougherty, M.K.; Khurana, K.K.; Neubauer, F.M.; Russell, C.T.; Saur, J.; Leisner, J.S.; Burton, M.E. Identification of a Dynamic Atmosphere at Enceladus with the Cassini Magnetometer. Science 2006, 311, 1406–1409.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hein, H.; Kunze, W. Umweltanalytik Mit Spektrometrie Und Chromatographie; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005; ISBN 9783527601691.

An edited book

Corporate Governance in Transition Economies; McGee, R.W., Ed.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2009; ISBN 9780387848303.

A chapter in an edited book

Antontsev, S.N.; Díaz, J.I. On the Coupling Between Channel Level and Surface Ground-Water Flows. In Earth Sciences and Mathematics: Volune II; Camacho, A.G., Díaz, J.I., Fernändez, J., Eds.; Birkhäuser: Basel, 2009; pp. 1511–1530 ISBN 9783764399634.

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 Journal of Imaging.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. Blue Origin Successfully Tests Crew Escape System In Major Step Towards Flying Space Tourists (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Health, Education and Human Services Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1997;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dang, H. The Cummulative Incidence Estimate versus the Kaplan Meier Method in Medical Research. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Vecsey, G. For Knicks’ Lee, a Grandfather, Mentor and Pal. New York Times 2010, B9.

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	Journal of Imaging
Abbreviation	J. Imaging
ISSN (online)	2313-433X
Scope