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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American College of Radiology. 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]

Westervelt RM. Applied physics. Graphene nanoelectronics. Science 2008;320:324–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ionescu AM, Riel H. Tunnel field-effect transistors as energy-efficient electronic switches. Nature 2011;479:329–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kaib NA, Raymond SN, Duncan M. Planetary system disruption by Galactic perturbations to wide binary stars. Nature 2013;493:381–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Izumi Y, Xu L, di Tomaso E, Fukumura D, Jain RK. Tumour biology: herceptin acts as an anti-angiogenic cocktail. Nature 2002;416:279–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Leung M-Y, Chan IYS, Cooper CL. Stress Management in the Construction Industry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Hildebrandt M, Gutwirth S, editors. Profiling the European Citizen: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ali S, Guo X, Karri R, Mukhopadhyay D. Fault Attacks on AES and Their Countermeasures. In: Chang C-H, Potkonjak M, editors. Secure System Design and Trustable Computing, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 163–208.

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 Radiology.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Sleepwalkers Who Injure Themselves Don’t Feel Pain Until They Wake Up. IFLScience 2015.

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. Department of Energy: Problems in the Management and Use of Supercomputers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lange AW. Calcineurin/NFATc1/DSCR1 Pathway Function in Cardiac Valvuloseptal Development and Down Syndrome-Related Phenotypes. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2006.

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]

Crow K. Many Families Waver on Plans For Holidays. New York Times 2001:58.

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 the American College of Radiology
Abbreviation	J. Am. Coll. Radiol.
ISSN (print)	1546-1440
Scope	Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging