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

Markham J. Rare species occupy uncommon niches. Sci Rep 2014;4:6012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Catania KC., Remple FE. Asymptotic prey profitability drives star-nosed moles to the foraging speed limit. Nature 2005;433(7025):519–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blake RE., Chang SJ., Lepland A. Phosphate oxygen isotopic evidence for a temperate and biologically active Archaean ocean. Nature 2010;464(7291):1029–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wu J., Huang J., Han X., Xie Z., Gao X. Ecology. Three-Gorges Dam--experiment in habitat fragmentation? Science 2003;300(5623):1239–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosenberger WR. Risk-Adjusted Lending Conditions. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Witrant E., Fridman E., Sename O., Dugard L. Recent Results on Time-Delay Systems: Analysis and Control. vol. 5. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Martin K., Sauerborn J. Crops and Their Environment. In: Sauerborn J, editor. Agroecology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 103–85.

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

Andrew D. Some Scientific Explanations for Alien Abduction That Aren’t so Out of This World. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/some-scientific-explanations-for-alien-abduction-that-arent-so-out-of-this-world/. 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. National Airspace System: FAA Reauthorization Issues are Critical to System Transformation and Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tafoya A. Impact of HIV/AIDS stigma on seropositive Latinos along the United States-Mexico border. 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

Kenigsberg B. Bugs. New York Times 2017:C4.

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