Citation format for Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC)

rbarish

For JACC citations, the current style is to use "et al" for all author lists of 3 or more. Zotero uses "et al" only for lists of 6 or more authors. Is there a way to correct this?

Spertus J.A., Jones P.G., Maron D.J., et al.

Also, JACC capitalizes only the first word of a title (unless there is a proper now), even after a delineator such as a colon. For example:

2021 AHA/ACC/ASE/CHEST/SAEM/SCCT/SCMR guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.

damnation

Please link to the current guidelines and a link to an open-access article that shows this. That way we can get this fixed quicker. :)

rbarish

Thank you! Here is a link to an open access article: https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2025.07.017

The most recent style guide/instructions for authors is here: http://jaccjacc.acc.org/JACC_Document/JACC_Author_Instructions_091916.pdf

See page 3, but note there is an internal inconsistency. At the start of the section, the guide instructs, "The references should only include the first 3 authors of any paper, followed by 'et al.'" However, in the section labeled "Periodicals," it reads, "List all authors if 6 or fewer, otherwise list the first 3 and add et al." However, articles published in JACC only list the first 3 authors in citations. I'm trying to find out who to contact to correct this in the style guide.

Thanks for your help!

damnation

The style guide is contradicting, no?
Did the editors say something?
I see that they generally want 3 authors+et al. (although in your example paper above look at the Patel et al. 2024 paper which lists 10 authors....)

Regarding the titles: Please store them in sentence case. (you an right click on a given title in Zotero and fix it). Not a style issue as that's set correctly.