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

Vinson VJ: Proteins in motion. Introduction. Science 324: 197, 2009. PMID: 19359575.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anikeeva P and Koppes RA: BIOENGINEERING. Restoring the sense of touch. Science 350: 274–275, 2015. PMID: 26472892.

A journal article with 3 authors

McCormick DA, Shu Y and Yu Y: Neurophysiology: Hodgkin and Huxley model--still standing? Nature 445: E1-2; discussion E2-3, 2007. PMID: 17203021.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo M, Chong YE, Beebe K, Shapiro R, Yang X-L and Schimmel P: The C-Ala domain brings together editing and aminoacylation functions on one tRNA. Science 325: 744–747, 2009. PMID: 19661429.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collings S: Interpretation and Application of UK GAAP. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods: 13th IFIP WG 10.5 Advanced Research Working Conference, CHARME 2005, Saarbrücken, Germany, October 3-6, 2005. Proceedings. (Borrione D and Paul W (eds.)). Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Khovratovich D: Two Attacks on RadioGatún. In: Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2008: 9th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Kharagpur, India, December 14-17, 2008. Proceedings. Chowdhury DR, Rijmen V and Das A (eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp 53–66, 2008.

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

Andrew E: Octopus And Squid Populations Are Booming – Here’s Why. IFLScience, 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/octopus-and-squid-populations-are-booming-here-s-why/ [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: Airport Financing: Information on Airport Fees Paid by Airlines. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reser G: Assessing the Relationship between Adult Attachment and Differentiation of Self to Coparental Divorce Adjustment., 2012.

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

Tackett M: Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Victims Could Find Political Clout in Florida. New York Times: A13, 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