How to format your references using the Journal Of Magnetic Resonance Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal Of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (JMRI). 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	Download the output style file
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

1. Richards D: Retrospective. Martin Gardner (1914-2010). Science 2010; 329:157.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Quist D, Chapela IH: Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico. Nature 2001; 414:541–543.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Li G-W, Oh E, Weissman JS: The anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence drives translational pausing and codon choice in bacteria. Nature 2012; 484:538–541.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wilmut I, Beaujean N, de Sousa PA, et al.: Somatic cell nuclear transfer. Nature 2002; 419:583–586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kario K: Essential Manual of 24 Hour Blood Pressure Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Nimmerjahn F (Ed): Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Antibody Activity. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tveito A, Langtangen HP, Nielsen BF, Cai X: Nonlinear Algebraic Equations. In Elements of Scientific Computing. Edited by Langtangen HP, Nielsen BF, Cai X. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010:99–145. [Texts in Computational Science and Engineering]

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 Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Blog post

1. Is Venus Still Erupting? [https://www.iflscience.com/space/venus-still-erupting/]

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: Reasons for Funding Selected Entitlements Programs by Other Than 1-Year Appropriations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Novak TS: Vital Signs of U.S. Osteopathic Medical Residency Programs Pivoting to Single Accreditation Standards. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2017.

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. Kishkovsky S: Moscow Theater Hit Again by Fire. New York Times 2005:B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Abbreviation	J. Magn. Reson. Imaging
ISSN (print)	1053-1807
ISSN (online)	1522-2586
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging