How to format your references using the CJC Open citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CJC Open. 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]

J. Gauntlett, Physics. Brane new worlds, Nature 404 (2000) 28–29.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.-L. Huang, S. Mackem, Evolutionary developmental biology: Use it or lose it, Nature 511 (2014) 34–35.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Grosman, M. Zhou, A. Auerbach, Mapping the conformational wave of acetylcholine receptor channel gating, Nature 403 (2000) 773–776.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Dalsgaard, D.E. Canfield, J. Petersen, B. Thamdrup, J. Acuña-González, N2 production by the anammox reaction in the anoxic water column of Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, Nature 422 (2003) 606–608.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.H. Eden, Codecharts, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

E.N. Myers, R.L. Ferris, eds., Salivary Gland Disorders, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Lu, Y.-W. Mai, Y.-G. Shen, The Origin of Superhardness in Nanocomposite Coatings: Analysis of Nanoindentation and Scratch Tests, in: Y.L. Bai, Q.S. Zheng, Y.G. Wei (Eds.), IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical Behavior and Micro-Mechanics of Nanostructured Materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium Held in Beijing, China, June 27–30, 2005, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 39–49.

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 CJC Open.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, The First Results From The Juno Mission Are In – And They Already Challenge Our Understanding Of Jupiter, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-first-results-from-the-juno-mission-are-in-and-they-already-challenge-our-understanding-of-jupiter/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 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, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.M. Martinez, The influence of formal and informal support on the quality of life of individuals with a severe mental illness, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

J. Poniewozik, ‘24’ Reboot Has a Dire Ring to It, New York Times (2017) C1.

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	CJC Open
ISSN (print)	2589-790X
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