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]

G.F. Bignami, Astronomy. Gamma-ray astronomy with INTEGRAL, Science 298 (2002) 1560–1561.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Pascual-Leone, V. Walsh, Fast backprojections from the motion to the primary visual area necessary for visual awareness, Science 292 (2001) 510–512.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Lohse, B. Schmitz, M. Versluis, Snapping shrimp make flashing bubbles, Nature 413 (2001) 477–478.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Dror, T. Amitay, B. Yaron, B. Berkowitz, Salt-pump mechanism for contaminant intrusion into coastal aquifers, Science 300 (2003) 950.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.J. Rossi, Theorems, Corollaries, Lemmas, and Methods of Proof, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

F. Chiappelli, ed., Comparative Effectiveness and Efficacy Research and Analysis for Practice (CEERAP): Applications in Health Care, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.D. Talu, N. Lazan, S. Lupascu, E. Sebestyen, L. Toader, Indications of the Modern Vitreo-Retinal Surgery Techniques, in: S. Vlad, R.V. Ciupa, A.I. Nicu (Eds.), International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology: 23–26 September, 2009, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 15–18.

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]

R. Andrews, Discovery Of The Source Of World’s Largest Methane Pool Is Anything But Good News, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/discovery-worlds-largest-methane-pool-anything-good-news/ (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, University Research: U.S. Reimbursement of Tuition Costs for University Employee Family Members, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Kong, Formal Methods Applied to the Specification of an Active Network Node, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2001.

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]

L. Greenhouse, The Roberts Court’s Reality Check, New York Times (2015) A27.

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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