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

Folbre N. Economics. When a commodity is not exactly a commodity. Science. 2008;319:1769–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Muoio DM, Newgard CB. Diabetes: The good in fat. Nature. 2014;516:49–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-Yehuda S, Rudner DZ, Losick R. RacA, a bacterial protein that anchors chromosomes to the cell poles. Science. 2003;299:532–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boukai AI, Bunimovich Y, Tahir-Kheli J, Yu J-K, Goddard WA 3rd, Heath JR. Silicon nanowires as efficient thermoelectric materials. Nature. 2008;451:168–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wystup U. FX Options and Structured Products. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Kalia S, Kaith BS, Kaur I, editors. Cellulose Fibers: Bio- and Nano-Polymer Composites: Green Chemistry and Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Badyda AJ, Dabrowiecki P, Lubinski W, Czechowski PO, Majewski G. Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollutants as a Risk of Airway Obstruction. In: Pokorski M, editor. Respiratory Regulation - Clinical Advances. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. page 35–45.

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

Fang J. Kiwi Bird Genome Reveals How They Adapted to Nocturnal Lifestyle [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/kiwi-bird-genome-reveals-how-they-adapted-nocturnal-lifestyles/

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. Core Competencies in Financial Management for Information Technology Personnel in the Federal Government (Exposure Draft). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Sep. Report No.: CC–3.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Morris L. Evolving the leadership model of the American theatre to forge a fiscally and artistically secure future [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Murphy MJO. Two Momentous Occasions in New York History. New York Times. 2016;C30.

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