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 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. Korotev RL. Planetary science. A unique chunk of the Moon. Science. 2004;305:622–623.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yusufzai T, Kadonaga JT. HARP is an ATP-driven annealing helicase. Science. 2008;322:748–750.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sheffield J, Wood EF, Roderick ML. Little change in global drought over the past 60 years. Nature. 2012;491:435–438.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yan S, Dong J, Zheng A, Zhang X. Chip-integrated optical power limiter based on an all-passive micro-ring resonator. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Larsen E, Aarts RM. Audio Bandwidth Extension. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

1. Leone MP, Knauf JE eds. Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism. 2nd ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mestechkina T, Son ND, Shin JY. Parenting in Vietnam. In: Selin H, editor. Parenting Across Cultures: Childrearing, Motherhood and Fatherhood in Non-Western Cultures. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014:47–57.

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. Andrew E. Drink A Glass Of Olive Oil Every Day – The Mediterranean Way To A Long Life. IFLScience. 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/drink-glass-olive-oil-every-day-mediterranean-way-long-life/.

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. Strategic Bombers: Logistics Decisions Impede B-1B Readiness and Supportability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Phelps-Hillen JL. Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study. 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. Kepner T. A 105-M.P.H. Fastball? Nice. What Else You Got? New York Times. 2016:A1.

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