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]

López-Urrutia A. Allometry: How reliable is the biological time clock? Nature 2003;424:269–70; discussion 270.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Badcock C, Crespi B. Battle of the sexes may set the brain. Nature 2008;454:1054–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rouse GW, Goffredi SK, Vrijenhoek RC. Osedax: bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males. Science 2004;305:668–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xiong J-P, Stehle T, Zhang R, Joachimiak A, Frech M, Goodman SL, et al. Crystal structure of the extracellular segment of integrin alpha Vbeta3 in complex with an Arg-Gly-Asp ligand. Science 2002;296:151–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Caltagirone J-P. Discrete Mechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Andréka H, Ferenczi M, Németi I, editors. Cylindric-like Algebras and Algebraic Logic. vol. 22. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lazarovici TS, Yoffe T. Epidemiology of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw. In: Otto S, editor. Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaws: Bisphosphonates, Denosumab, and New Agents, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 55–61.

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]

Hale T. Secret Air Force Space Plane Remains A Mystery After 500-Day Orbit. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/secret-air-force-space-plane-remains-a-mystery-after-500day-orbit/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Final Certification of TAP Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Marcus J. Voices of survival: Opera in Theresienstadt. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic 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

[1]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: President Signs Land Reform Law. New York Times 2001:A8.

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