How to format your references using the JCC Open citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JCC Open. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Baker S. Infectious disease. A return to the pre-antimicrobial era? Science 2015;347:1064–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wolff S, Dillin A. Ageing: beneficial miscommunication. Nature 2013;497:442–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Liang P-S, Park TS, Yoon J-Y. Rapid and reagentless detection of microbial contamination within meat utilizing a smartphone-based biosensor. Sci Rep 2014;4:5953.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pah AR, Guimerà R, Mustoe AM, Amaral LAN. Use of a global metabolic network to curate organismal metabolic networks. Sci Rep 2013;3:1695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ansons AM, Davis H. Diagnosis and Management of Ocular Motility Disorders. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Yu J, Greco S, Lingras P, Wang G, Skowron A, editors. Rough Set and Knowledge Technology: 5th International Conference, RSKT 2010, Beijing, China, October 15-17, 2010. Proceedings. vol. 6401. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dieter Zeh H. Roots and Fruits of Decoherence. In: Duplantier B, Raimond J-M, Rivasseau V, editors. Quantum Decoherence: Poincaré Seminar 2005, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2007, p. 151–75.

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 JCC Open.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. How You Can Help Make A Movie About Bill Nye. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/help-make-awesome-movie-about-bill-nye-reality/ (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. Student Loans: Default Rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Maranhao B. Efficient identification of disease causative mutations with next generation sequencing technologies. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 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

[1]

Greenhouse L. Justices Take Up On-Air Vulgarity Again. New York Times 2008:A16.

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	JCC Open
Abbreviation	JCC Open
ISSN (print)	2212-0149
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