How to format your references using the JCC Open citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JCC 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]

Packer C. Genetics. A bit of Texas in Florida. Science 2010;329:1606–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Waller L, Tian L. Computational imaging: Machine learning for 3D microscopy. Nature 2015;523:416–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Séguin B, Singer PA, Daar AS. Science community: scientific diasporas. Science 2006;312:1602–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hughey JR, Gabrielson PW, Rohmer L, Tortolani J, Silva M, Miller KA, et al. Minimally destructive sampling of type specimens of Pyropia (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) recovers complete plastid and mitochondrial genomes. Sci Rep 2014;4:5113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wei J. Great Inventions that Changed the World. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Grimaud G, Standaert F-X, editors. Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 8th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2008, London, UK, September 8-11, 2008. Proceedings. vol. 5189. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bickmore T, Schulman D, Yin L. Engagement vs. Deceit: Virtual Humans with Human Autobiographies. In: Ruttkay Z, Kipp M, Nijholt A, Vilhjálmsson HH, editors. Intelligent Virtual Agents: 9th International Conference, IVA 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 14-16, 2009 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 6–19.

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 JCC Open.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. New York 2140: A Novelist’s Vision Of A Drowned City That Still Never Sleeps. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/new-york-2140-a-novelists-vision-of-a-drowned-city-that-still-never-sleeps/ (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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Needs to Improve Its Decisionmaking Process for Its Route and Service Proposals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Swan C. Arts participation and career preparedness: A pragmatic approach to assessing arts benefits. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times 2017:C21.

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	JCC Open
Abbreviation	JCC Open
ISSN (print)	2212-0149
Scope