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. Tammaro P. Journal club. A physiologist notes the similarities between animal and plant electricity. Nature 2009; 458: 11.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Domkin V, Chabes A. Phosphines are ribonucleotide reductase reductants that act via C-terminal cysteines similar to thioredoxins and glutaredoxins. Sci. Rep. 2014; 4: 5539.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Velarde E, Ezcurra E, Anderson DW. Seabird diets provide early warning of sardine fishery declines in the Gulf of California. Sci. Rep. 2013; 3: 1332.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Kuiken T, Leighton FA, Fouchier RAM, LeDuc JW, Peiris JSM, Schudel A, Stöhr K, Osterhaus ADME. Public health. Pathogen surveillance in animals. Science 2005; 309: 1680–1681.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hens H. Applied Building Physics. Berlin, Germany, Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG. 2012;

An edited book

1. Atienza Alonso D. Dynamic Memory Management for Embedded Systems. Cham, Springer International Publishing. 2015;

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kavanagh P, Marder K. Dementia. In: RF Pfeiffer,I Bodis-Wollner, eds. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press. 2013; 45–61.

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. There Are Better Ways To Quantify How Big And Bad A Hurricane Is. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/there-are-better-ways-quantify-how-big-and-bad-hurricane/ (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. Transportation Infrastructure: Major Program Revisions Present Challenges. 1992;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Prasad AB. Analyzing comparative sequence data to understand genome function and evolution. 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. Gustines GG. The Joker in the Deck: Birth of a Supervillain. New York Times 2010; C2.

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

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