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 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]

Huang KG. Intellectual property. China’s innovation landscape. Science 2010;329:632–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen F, Krasnow MA. Progenitor outgrowth from the niche in Drosophila trachea is guided by FGF from decaying branches. Science 2014;343:186–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Weiss KM, Miguel-Sanchez J, Elzerman JM. Magnetically tunable singlet-triplet spin qubit in a four-electron InGaAs coupled quantum dot. Sci Rep 2013;3:3121.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Honda Y, Ding X, Mussano F, Wiberg A, Ho C-M, Nishimura I. Guiding the osteogenic fate of mouse and human mesenchymal stem cells through feedback system control. Sci Rep 2013;3:3420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gregory J. Counterparty Credit Risk and Credit Value Adjustment. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Clark JA, Paige RF, Polack FAC, Brooke PJ, editors. Security in Pervasive Computing: Third International Conference, SPC 2006, York, UK, April 18-21, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 3934. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Goddard J. Tick-Borne Diseases. In: Goddard J, editor. Infectious Diseases and Arthropods, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008, p. 81–129.

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. Jaw-Dropping Discovery Rewrites Evolutionary History of Vertebrates. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jaw-dropping-discovery-rewrites-evolutionary-history-vertebrates/ (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. Computer Systems: Continued Oversight Crucial for Air Force’s Requirements Data Bank. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Briseno AR. Improving school performance through family involvement: A grant project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Walsh MW, Yaccino S. In Embattled Detroit, No Talk of Sharing Pain Between Retirees and Bondholders. New York Times 2013:B1.

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