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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Prather MJ. Atmospheric science. An environmental experiment with H2? Science 2003;302(5645):581–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Venitt S., Phillips DH. Philip D. Lawley (1927-2011). Nature 2012;482(7383):36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Faller M., Niederweis M., Schulz GE. The structure of a mycobacterial outer-membrane channel. Science 2004;303(5661):1189–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

McConnell JR., Arthern RJ., Mosley-Thompson E., et al. Changes in Greenland ice sheet elevation attributed primarily to snow accumulation variability. Nature 2000;406(6798):877–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chang CM. Service Systems Management and Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Hackl K. IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials, Bochum, Germany, September 22-26, 2008. vol. 21. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

De Sanctis L., Franz S. Self-averaging Identities for Random Spin Systems. In: Monvel AB de, and Bovier A, editors. Spin Glasses: Statics and Dynamics: Summer School, Paris 2007. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2009. p. 123–42.

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 Interventions.

Blog post

Andrew E. Injecting Bacteria Can Shrink Tumors. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/injecting-bacteria-can-shrink-tumors/. 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. [Comments on Proposed Changes to DAR Cost Principles and Internal Procedures]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hardison A. Achieving Literacy Excellence through Identifying and Utilizing High Yield Strategies. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2017.

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

Gustines GG. Super Powers: Turning a Dime Into a Million Bucks. New York Times 2010:WK2.

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 Interventions
ISSN (print)	1936-8798
ISSN (online)	1876-7605
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