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. Carr AM. Molecular biology. Beginning at the end. Science 2003; 300: 1512–1513.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Davis SJ, Shearer C. Climate change: A crack in the natural-gas bridge. Nature 2014; 514: 436–437.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Stewart JT, Gaebler JP, Jin DS. Using photoemission spectroscopy to probe a strongly interacting Fermi gas. Nature 2008; 454: 744–747.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Mori T, Koyama Y, Maeda N, Nakamura Y, Fujishima Y, Matsuda K, Funahashi T, Shimada S, Shimomura I. Ultrastructural localization of adiponectin protein in vasculature of normal and atherosclerotic mice. Sci. Rep. 2014; 4: 4895.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Joseph C. Advanced Credit Risk Analysis and Management. Oxford, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2013;

An edited book

1. Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems II: IFIP TC 8 WG 8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2007) October 14–16, 2007, Beijing, China. Boston, MA, Springer US. 2008;

A chapter in an edited book

1. Taylor IJ, Harrison AB. Distributed Security Techniques. In: IJ Taylor,AB Harrison, eds. Computer Communications and Networks. London, Springer. 2009; 61–77.

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. Why Rosetta Is The Greatest Space Mission Of Our Lifetime. https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-rosetta-greatest-space-mission-our-lifetime/ (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. Title 6--NAD Electronic Signature. 1994;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Eisenbeiser CK. Parents’ Experience of Involvement in the Lives of Community College Students: A Phenomenological Study. 2012;

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. Brantley B. They Sing and Dance, but This Isn’t “La La Land’. New York Times 2017; C5.

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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