  Magnetic form factors corresponding to elastic electron scattering from odd-A
nuclei are presented. The calculations are carried out in plane-wave Born
approximation. The one-body properties are obtained in a deformed
self-consistent mean-field calculation based on a Skyrme HF+BCS method.
Collective effects are also included in the cranking approximation. Results on
several stable nuclei are compared with the available experimental information.
It is shown that a deformed formalism improves the agreement with experiment in
deformed nuclei, while reproducing equally well spherical nuclei by taking
properly the spherical limit of the deformed model and the effect of
nucleon-nucleon correlations. Thus, the capability of the model to describe
magnetic form factors is demonstrated. This opens the door to explore also
unstable nuclei of particular interest that could be measured in future
experiments on electron-radioactive beam colliders.
