How to format your references using the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Magnetic Resonance in 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	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

Rosset P. Preventing hunger: change economic policy. Nature. 2011;479(7374):472-473.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kronenberg M, Rudensky A. Regulation of immunity by self-reactive T cells. Nature. 2005;435(7042):598-604.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin G, Xu N, Xi R. Paracrine Wingless signalling controls self-renewal of Drosophila intestinal stem cells. Nature. 2008;455(7216):1119-1123.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tan J, Wang G, Liu ZY, et al. Correlation between atomic structure evolution and strength in a bulk metallic glass at cryogenic temperature. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3897.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ansorge R. Mathematical Models of Fluiddynamics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Lhoneux E de. The European Stability Mechanism Before the Court of Justice of the European Union: Comments on the Pringle Case. (Vassilopoulos CA, ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahn KY, Sheard T, Fiore M, Pitts AM. System F i. In: Hasegawa M, ed. Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications: 11th International Conference, TLCA 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 26-28, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013:15-30.

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 in Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. New And Inexpensive Material Captures Oil But Lets Water Through. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-and-inexpensive-material-could-help-clean-environment/. Published April 16, 2015. Accessed October 30, 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. Air Force Aircraft: Consolidating Fighter Squadrons Could Reduce Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen HM. Valuation effects and external adjustment. 2009.

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

Macintyre B. The Fog of War. New York Times. May 16, 2017:BR12.

In-text citations

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

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 in Medicine
Abbreviation	Magn. Reson. Med.
ISSN (print)	0740-3194
ISSN (online)	1522-2594
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging