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
    edited 6 days ago
    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.
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