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]

Stahl SS. Chemistry. Palladium-catalyzed oxidation of organic chemicals with O2. Science 2005;309:1824–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

King DA, Thomas SM. Science and government. Taking science out of the box--foresight recast. Science 2007;316:1701–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lee D, Lin B-J, Lee AK. Hippocampal place fields emerge upon single-cell manipulation of excitability during behavior. Science 2012;337:849–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Guduru R, Liang P, Runowicz C, Nair M, Atluri V, Khizroev S. Magneto-electric nanoparticles to enable field-controlled high-specificity drug delivery to eradicate ovarian cancer cells. Sci Rep 2013;3:2953.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McFedries P. Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Casanovas P, Pagallo U, Sartor G, Ajani G, editors. AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Complex Systems, the Semantic Web, Ontologies, Argumentation, and Dialogue: International Workshops AICOL-I/IVR-XXIV Beijing, China, September19, 2009 and AICOL-II/JURIX 2009, Rotterdam,The Netherlands, December 16, 2009 Revised Selected Papers. vol. 6237. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shreve M, Fefilatyev S, Bonilla N, Hernandez G, Goldgof D, Sarkar S. View-Invariant Method for Calculating 2D Optical Strain. In: Jiang X, Bellon ORP, Goldgof D, Oishi T, editors. Advances in Depth Image Analysis and Applications: International Workshop, WDIA 2012, Tsukuba, Japan, November 11, 2012, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 42–9.

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]

Fang J. Skeletons From 400-Year-Old Gravesite Identified As Jamestown Leaders. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/skeletons-400-year-old-gravesite-identified-jamestown-leaders/ (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. Vehicle Safety: Opportunities Exist to Enhance NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Espinoza M. A Latina’s educational attainment and her observations of foster youth’s educational struggles: A narrative. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Vecsey G. Far From London, Seeing the Big Picture. New York Times 2012:B17.

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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