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

Mesirov JP: Computer science. Accessible reproducible research. Science 327: 415–416, 2010. PMID: 20093459.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuspa SH and Epstein EH Jr: Cancer. An anchor for tumor cell invasion. Science 307: 1727–1728, 2005. PMID: 15774745.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu L, Yin M-L and Liu SF: Ag(x)@WO₃ core-shell nanostructure for LSP enhanced chemical sensors. Sci Rep 4: 6745, 2014. PMID: 25339285.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gamo F-J, Sanz LM, Vidal J, de Cozar C, Alvarez E, Lavandera J-L, Vanderwall DE, Green DVS, Kumar V, Hasan S, Brown JR, Peishoff CE, Cardon LR and Garcia-Bustos JF: Thousands of chemical starting points for antimalarial lead identification. Nature 465: 305–310, 2010. PMID: 20485427.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sóbester A and Forrester AIJ: Aircraft Aerodynamic Design. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

Volchkov VV: Harmonic Analysis of Mean Periodic Functions on Symmetric Spaces and the Heisenberg Group. (Volchkov VV (ed.)). London, Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Altpeter F and Korzun V: Rye. In: Transgenic Crops IV. Pua E-C and Davey MR (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp 107–117, 2007.

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

Davis J: Scientists Develop Enzyme That Can Convert Any Blood Into Universal Donor Type. IFLScience, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-edge-closer-being-able-change-blood-types/ [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: Public Education: Commercial Activities in Schools. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cornelius DA: The value of Scrum to organizations: A case study., 2014.

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

St. John Kelly E: PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times: 1315, 1993.

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