How to format your references using the Anticancer Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Anticancer Research. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Worlock DR: The best and worst of times. Nature 413: 671, 2001. PMID: 11606995.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin OY and Hosken DJ: The evolution of reproductive isolation through sexual conflict. Nature 423: 979–982, 2003. PMID: 12827200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lönnstedt OM, McCormick MI and Chivers DP: Predator-induced changes in the growth of eyes and false eyespots. Sci Rep 3: 2259, 2013. PMID: 23887772.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Biederer T, Sara Y, Mozhayeva M, Atasoy D, Liu X, Kavalali ET and Südhof TC: SynCAM, a synaptic adhesion molecule that drives synapse assembly. Science 297: 1525–1531, 2002. PMID: 12202822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam MR, Islam JS, Zatzman GM, Mughal MAH and Rahman MS: The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

Experimental Algorithms: 8th International Symposium, SEA 2009, Dortmund, Germany, June 4-6, 2009. Proceedings. (Vahrenhold J (ed.)). Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Grimson R: An Efficient Algorithm for the Sign Condition Problem in the Semi-algebraic Context. In: Advances in Geometric Modeling and Processing: 6th International Conference, GMP 2010, Castro Urdiales, Spain, June 16-18, 2010. Proceedings. Mourrain B, Schaefer S and Xu G (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp 57–76, 2010.

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 Anticancer Research.

Blog post

Fang J: Earth-like Soils on Mars Suggest Microbial Life. IFLScience, 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/earth-soils-mars-suggest-microbial-life/ [last 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

Government Accountability Office: Training and Education Programs for Civilian Employees in the Federal Government. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kovacev RJ: Encouraging employee entrepreneurial spirit: A phenomenological case study of a large technology enterprise., 2008.

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

Philipps D and Hubbard B: Video Shows U.S. Soldiers Who Died In Jordan. New York Times: A8, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Anticancer Research
Abbreviation	Anticancer Res.
ISSN (print)	0250-7005
ISSN (online)	1791-7530
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Oncology