How to format your references using the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography (JCAT). 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

O’Meara S. At the very heart of progress. Nature. 2015;528:S179-81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raviv U, Klein J. Fluidity of bound hydration layers. Science. 2002;297:1540–1543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wong KM, Suchard MA, Huelsenbeck JP. Alignment uncertainty and genomic analysis. Science. 2008;319:473–476.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shen Y, Chen Y, Zou H, et al. A fiber-based quasi-continuous-wave quantum key distribution system. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4563.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abutarbush SM. Illustrated Guide to Equine Diseases. Ames, Iowa, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

Falcone R, Barber S, Sabater-Mir J, et al., eds. Trusting Agents for Trusting Electronic Societies: Theory and Applications in HCI and E-Commerce. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Denk R, Kaip M. Application to parabolic differential equations. In: Kaip M, ed. General Parabolic Mixed Order Systems in Lp and Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2013:187–228.

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 Computer Assisted Tomography.

Blog post

Andrew E. Killer Frog Fungus Could Actually Help Amphibians Survive Disease Killer Frog Fungus Could Actually Help Amphibians Survive Disease [IFLScience]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/killer-frog-fungus-could-actually-help-amphibians-survive-disease/. 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Delivering New Generations of Satellites, but Space System Acquisition Challenges Remain. GAO-11-590T, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 11, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flamenco E. A financial abuse prevention program for older adults: A grant proposal. Doctoral Dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

Scheiber N. Fight for $15 Widens Focus. New York Times, November 29, 2016, B1.

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 Computer Assisted Tomography
ISSN (print)	0363-8715
ISSN (online)	1532-3145
Scope