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. Schooler JW. Metascience could rescue the “replication crisis.” Nature 2014; 515: 9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gargiulo F, Carletti T. Driving forces of researchers mobility. Sci. Rep. 2014; 4: 4860.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lobell DB, Schlenker W, Costa-Roberts J. Climate trends and global crop production since 1980. Science 2011; 333: 616–620.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Essers MAG, Offner S, Blanco-Bose WE, Waibler Z, Kalinke U, Duchosal MA, Trumpp A. IFNalpha activates dormant haematopoietic stem cells in vivo. Nature 2009; 458: 904–908.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kiehl AR, Mays MBC. Atlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016;

An edited book

1. Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services: 7th International ICST Conference, MobiQuitous 2010, Sydeny, Australia, December 6-9, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. 2012;

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schreurs J, Martens P, Kok G. How to Promote Sustainable Living? In: U Schrader,V Fricke,D Doyle,VW Thoresen, eds. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. 2013; 31–46.

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. Andrew E. The Most Influential Scientist You May Never Have Heard Of. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/most-influential-scientist-you-may-never-have-heard/ (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. Governmentwide Initiatives: Critical Issues Facing the Next Federal Telecommunications System. 1994;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Torres-Partida A. Bridging the gap between faith based leaders and mental health professionals. 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. Sisario B. Streaming Drives Up Music Sales in U.S., but Hold the Celebrations. New York Times 2017; B2.

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