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]

Binney JJ. Astronomy. Triangulating the galaxy. Science 2006;311:44–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vaquero LM, Cebrian M. The rich club phenomenon in the classroom. Sci Rep 2013;3:1174.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gambetta MC, Oktaba K, Müller J. Essential role of the glycosyltransferase sxc/Ogt in polycomb repression. Science 2009;325:93–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schefuss E, Schouten S, Jansen JHF, Sinninghe Damsté JS. African vegetation controlled by tropical sea surface temperatures in the mid-Pleistocene period. Nature 2003;422:418–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Evans PW. Top Hat. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Chen Z, Liu A, Qu Y, Tang L, Ting N, Tsong Y, editors. Applied Statistics in Biomedicine and Clinical Trials Design: Selected Papers from 2013 ICSA/ISBS Joint Statistical Meetings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cruz A, Correia A, Paredes H, Fonseca B, Morgado L, Martins P. Towards an Overarching Classification Model of CSCW and Groupware: A Socio-technical Perspective. In: Herskovic V, Hoppe HU, Jansen M, Ziegler J, editors. Collaboration and Technology: 18th International Conference, CRIWG 2012 Raesfeld, Germany, September 16-19, 2012 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 41–56.

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]

Carpineti A. Astronomers Have Finally Discovered How The Solar Wind Changes. IFLScience 2016.

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. Additional Costs Incurred in Maintaining the National Industrial Equipment Reserve (NIER). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tablason JM. Recollecting. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Ryerson J. University Presses. New York Times 2017:BR31.

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
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