How to format your references using the Cancer Discovery citation style

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

Fung I. Atmospheric science. A hyperventilating biosphere. Science. 2013;341:1075–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burdon JJ, Thrall PH. Coevolution of plants and their pathogens in natural habitats. Science. 2009;324:755–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haynes J-D, Deichmann R, Rees G. Eye-specific effects of binocular rivalry in the human lateral geniculate nucleus. Nature. 2005;438:496–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Conrad DF, Pinto D, Redon R, Feuk L, Gokcumen O, Zhang Y, et al. Origins and functional impact of copy number variation in the human genome. Nature. 2010;464:704–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Process Safety Documentation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1995.

An edited book

Samantaray AK. Model-based Process Supervision: A Bond Graph Approach. Bouamama BO, editor. London: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Naunheimer H, Bertsche B, Ryborz J, Novak W. Matching Engine and Transmission. In: Bertsche B, Ryborz J, Novak W, editors. Automotive Transmissions: Fundamentals, Selection, Design and Application. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. page 115–39.

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 Discovery.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Soyuz Rocket Launches First Danish Astronaut To The ISS Where LEGO Spacemen Await [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/soyuz-rocket-launches-first-danish-astronaut-iss-where-lego-spacemen-await/

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. The SEASAT-A Project: Where It Stands Today. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Sep. Report No.: PSAD-77-126.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Seger JL. The Occupy Movement: Signs of Cultural Shifts in Group Processes Shaped by Place [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2017.

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

David Kelly: David Kelly is an editor of The Book Review. PUGILISTS’ PROGRESS. New York Times. 1987;78.

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	Cancer Discovery
Abbreviation	Cancer Discov.
ISSN (print)	2159-8274
ISSN (online)	2159-8290
Scope	Oncology