How to format your references using the Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals (CBR). 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

Gleick PH. Global freshwater resources: soft-path solutions for the 21st century. Science 2003;302(5650):1524–1528.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gonnermann HM, Manga M. Explosive volcanism may not be an inevitable consequence of magma fragmentation. Nature 2003;426(6965):432–435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang L, Zeng X, Wang X. Programmable hydrogenation of graphene for novel nanocages. Sci Rep 2013;3:3162.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Klein JA, Longo-Guess CM, Rossmann MP, et al. The harlequin mouse mutation downregulates apoptosis-inducing factor. Nature 2002;419(6905):367–374.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ginena K, Hamid A. Foundations of Sharī‘ah Governance of Islamic Banks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2015.

An edited book

Heard G, Arunachalam D, (eds). Family Formation in 21st Century Australia. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Pieraccini R. The Industry of Spoken-Dialog Systems and the Third Generation of Interactive Applications. In: Speech Technology: Theory and Applications. (Chen F. ed) Springer US: Boston, MA; 2010; pp. 61–77.

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 Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals.

Blog post

Davis J. Cave-Climbing Catfish Discovered In Ecuador. IFLScience; 2015. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Progress On and Challenges to Central Artery/Tunnel Project’s Costs and Financing. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1997.

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. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University: Scottsdale, AZ; 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

Feeney K. Food That Recalls a Childhood. New York Times 2008;NJ12.

In-text citations

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

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	Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals
ISSN (print)	1084-9785
ISSN (online)	1557-8852
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