How to format your references using the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. 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	Download the output style file
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

Crawley JN. Medicine. Testing hypotheses about autism. Science. 2007;318(5847):56-57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weaver M, Krasnow MA. Dual origin of tissue-specific progenitor cells in Drosophila tracheal remodeling. Science. 2008;321(5895):1496-1499.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richard D, Clanet C, Quéré D. Contact time of a bouncing drop. Nature. 2002;417(6891):811.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ahn DG, Kourakis MJ, Rohde LA, Silver LM, Ho RK. T-box gene tbx5 is essential for formation of the pectoral limb bud. Nature. 2002;417(6890):754-758.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

von Eye A, Mun EY. Log-Linear Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Beatley T, ed. Green Cities of Europe: Global Lessons on Green Urbanism. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Vidas T, Owusu E, Wang S, Zeng C, Cranor LF, Christin N. QRishing: The Susceptibility of Smartphone Users to QR Code Phishing Attacks. In: Adams AA, Brenner M, Smith M, eds. Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2013 Workshops, USEC and WAHC 2013, Okinawa, Japan, April 1, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2013:52-69.

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 Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Neutron Star Collisions Could Reveal Secrets Of Exotic Matter. IFLScience. August 4, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/neutron-star-collisions-could-reveal-secrets-of-exotic-matter/

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

Government Accountability Office. Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs to Better Prepare for Impending Wave of Controller Attrition. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alajmi H. Pre-Islamic Poetry and Speech Act Theory: Al-A`shá, Bishr Ibn Abī Khāzim, and al-Hujayjah. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University; 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

Billard M. Step Down to Step Up. New York Times. September 2, 2010:E5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Abbreviation	J. Cardiovasc. Comput. Tomogr.
ISSN (print)	1934-5925
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging