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]

P. Libby, Inflammation in atherosclerosis, Nature 420 (2002) 868–874.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y.-X. Fu, U. Storb, Immunology. Autoreactive B cells migrate into T cell territory, Science 297 (2002) 2006–2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.S. Holm, S. Saravanamurugan, E. Taarning, Conversion of sugars to lactic acid derivatives using heterogeneous zeotype catalysts, Science 328 (2010) 602–605.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.R. Vieites, S. Nieto-Román, M. Barluenga, A. Palanca, M. Vences, A. Meyer, Post-mating clutch piracy in an amphibian, Nature 431 (2004) 305–308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Rich, Understanding, Assessing, and Rehabilitating Juvenile Sexual Offenders, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Gliozzo, Semantic Domains in Computational Linguistics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Arata, K. Amano, K. Yamakawa, A. Arata, Central Respiratory Failure in a Mouse Model Depends on the Genetic Background of the Host, in: I. Homma, H. Onimaru, Y. Fukuchi (Eds.), New Frontiers in Respiratory Control: XIth Annual Oxford Conference on Modeling and Control of Breathing, Springer, New York, NY, 2010: pp. 21–24.

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]

J. O`Callaghan, Astronaut On The ISS Controls Rover On Earth, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronaut-iss-controls-rover-earth-possible-precursor-mars-mission/ (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, Information Technology: Update on VA Actions to Implement Critical Reforms, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Perfitt, Megaphone: Fault tolerant, scalable, and trustworthy peer-to-peer microblogging, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

S. James, Recalling the Plague Years, New York Times (2017) F28.

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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