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]

Jox R. Europe chips in for training. Nature 2003;425:326.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kanan MW, Nocera DG. In situ formation of an oxygen-evolving catalyst in neutral water containing phosphate and Co2+. Science 2008;321:1072–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Humanes-Valera D, Foffani G, Aguilar J. Increased cortical responses to forepaw stimuli immediately after peripheral deafferentation of hindpaw inputs. Sci Rep 2014;4:7278.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Meier MF, Dyurgerov MB, Rick UK, O’neel S, Pfeffer WT, Anderson RS, et al. Glaciers dominate eustatic sea-level rise in the 21st century. Science 2007;317:1064–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jay SA. High Voltage Electricity Installations. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Maier R. Enterprise Knowledge Infrastructures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zachman RC. God Manifested in God’s Works: The Knowledge of God in the Reformed Tradition. In: Cherry MJ, editor. The death of metaphysics; the death of culture: Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Morality, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006, p. 71–97.

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]

Andrew E. Watch China’s lunar rover landing! IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-china’s-lunar-rover-landing/ (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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of Transformation and Issues Associated with Midterm Implementation of Capabilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Freeman J. The Loudest Room. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

Vecsey G. Togetherness Helps Set Winner Apart. New York Times 2011:F9.

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

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