How to format your references using the JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging (JCMG). 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

Boland J. Materials science: Diamond gets harder. Nature 2014;510(7504):220–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dunn RA., Martinez F. Contrasting crustal production and rapid mantle transitions beneath back-arc ridges. Nature 2011;469(7329):198–202.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shatzkes K., Teferedegne B., Murata H. A simple, inexpensive method for preparing cell lysates suitable for downstream reverse transcription quantitative PCR. Sci Rep 2014;4:4659.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Samuelson JC., Chen M., Jiang F., et al. YidC mediates membrane protein insertion in bacteria. Nature 2000;406(6796):637–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chu PP. RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Adler DG. Advanced Pancreaticobiliary Endoscopy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Conder MDE., Kwon YS., Širáň J. On External Symmetry Groups of Regular Maps. In: Connelly R, Ivić Weiss A, and Whiteley W, editors. Rigidity and Symmetry. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 87–96.

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 JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging.

Blog post

Taub B. Something Weird Happens When You Give Cocaine To Fish. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/something-weird-happens-give-cocaine-fish/. 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. Analysis of “Florida’s Fair Share.” 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

Cornejo VM. Teachers’ perceptions about promoting mental health in the classroom. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Brantley B. Musical Theater Loses A Versatile Voice. New York Times 2017:C1.

In-text citations

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

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	JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
Abbreviation	JACC Cardiovasc. Imaging
ISSN (print)	1936-878X
ISSN (online)	1876-7591
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging