How to format your references using the Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology. 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

Tielens AGGM (2003) Planetary science. Peering into stardust. Science 300:68–71

A journal article with 2 authors

Yin Y, Alivisatos AP (2005) Colloidal nanocrystal synthesis and the organic-inorganic interface. Nature 437:664–670

A journal article with 3 authors

Panda S, Hogenesch JB, Kay SA (2002) Circadian rhythms from flies to human. Nature 417:329–335

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shen J-X, Feng AS, Xu Z-M, et al (2008) Ultrasonic frogs show hyperacute phonotaxis to female courtship calls. Nature 453:914–916

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Samara T (2015) ERP and Information Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

English LM (2012) Learning with Adults: A Critical Pedagogical Introduction. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Pula W (2007) On Some Aspects of Reliability Computations in Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundations. In: Griffiths DV, Fenton GA (eds) Probabilistic Methods in Geotechnical Engineering. Springer, Vienna, pp 127–145

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 Chemotherapy and Pharmacology.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Archaeologists Think They’ve Discovered The World’s First Marijuana “Dealers.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-think-theyve-discovered-the-worlds-first-marijuana-dealers/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1996) NASA Contract Management. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Finley S (2014) How online communication and social media networking are used in alcohol use treatment. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Vecsey G (2011) In the Motor City, Success on the Field and Hope Off It. New York Times B15

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0344-5704
ISSN (online)	1432-0843
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology Toxicology