How to format your references using the Journal of the American College of Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). 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

1. Knapp S. Genetics. Celebrating spuds. Science. 2008;321:206–207.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Weitzer S, Martinez J. The human RNA kinase hClp1 is active on 3’ transfer RNA exons and short interfering RNAs. Nature. 2007;447:222–226.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Morens DM, Folkers GK, Fauci AS. The challenge of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Nature. 2004;430:242–249.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Saikawa Y, Hashimoto K, Nakata M, et al. Pigment chemistry: the red sweat of the hippopotamus. Nature. 2004;429:363.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Zink M. Scalable Video on Demand. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., 2005.

An edited book

1. Santamaría L. Neuroendocrine Cells and Peptidergic Innervation in Human and Rat Prostate. (Alonso L, Ingelmo I, Pozuelo JM, Rodriguez R, editors.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Belkadi F, Bosch-Mauchand M, Kibamba Y, Le Duigou J, Eynard B. Functional Architecture and Specifications for Tolerancing Data and Knowledge Management. In: Rivest L, Bouras A, Louhichi B, editors. Product Lifecycle Management. Towards Knowledge-Rich Enterprises: IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 9-11, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012:35–45.

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 the American College of Cardiology.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Is Actually Sort Of Happening. IFLScience. 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musks-hyperloop-actually-sort-happening/.

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. DOD Schools: Limitations in DOD-Sponsored Study on Transfer Alternatives Underscore Need for Additional Assessment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Laird EC. Training social workers to use solution-focused interviewing with Child Protective Services clients: A grant proposal. 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. Kishkovsky S. Tatyana M. Velikanova, 70, Soviet Human Rights Activist. New York Times. 2002:A31.

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 the American College of Cardiology
Abbreviation	J. Am. Coll. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0735-1097
ISSN (online)	1558-3597
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine