How to format your references using the Journal of Atrial Fibrillation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Atrial Fibrillation (JAFIB). 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. Hoag H. All systems go. Nature 2004; 427: 568–569.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ernst U, Pawelzik K. Neuroscience. Sensible balance. Science 2011; 334: 1507–1508.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yan Z, Cai M, Shen PK. Nanosized tungsten carbide synthesized by a novel route at low temperature for high performance electrocatalysis. Sci. Rep. 2013; 3: 1646.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Shahmoon A, Aharon S, Kruchik O, Hohmann M, Slovin H, Douplik A, Zalevsky Z. In vivo minimally invasive interstitial multi-functional microendoscopy. Sci. Rep. 2013; 3: 1805.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Scharf T. Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006;

An edited book

1. Algorithms and Computation: 17th International Symposium, ISAAC 2006, Kolkata, India, December 18-20, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. 2006;

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chen Y, Eickmeyer K, Flum J. The Exponential Time Hypothesis and the Parameterized Clique Problem. In: DM Thilikos,GJ Woeginger, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. 2012; 13–24.

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 Journal of Atrial Fibrillation.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Two Nearby Earth-Sized Exoplanets Confirmed To Be Rocky. (accessed 2018October).

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. Comments on NASA Payment for Apollo 11 Recognition Banquet. 1969;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Shina YE. Youth under the care of the child welfare and juvenile justice systems: A grant proposal for crossover youth. 2013;

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. Schwartz J. Irma’s Shifting Forecasts: Probability and Uncertainty, With Room for Improvement. New York Times 2017; A10.

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	Journal of Atrial Fibrillation
Abbreviation	J. Atr. Fibrillation
ISSN (print)	1941-6911
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine