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

Kappe CO. Journal club. A chemist muses on the technique of microwaving flowing chemical reactions. Nature. 2010;464:817.

A journal article with 2 authors

Milutinovich M, Koshland DE. Molecular biology. SMC complexes--wrapped up in controversy. Science. 2003;300:1101–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

McHenry CR, Cook AG, Wroe S. Bottom-feeding plesiosaurs. Science. 2005;310:75.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yamamoto K, Sakata Y, Nohara Y, Takahashi Y, Tatsumi T. Organic-inorganic hybrid zeolites containing organic frameworks. Science. 2003;300:470–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolbarst AB, Capasso P, Wyant AR. Medical Imaging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Meersman R, Tari Z, Herrero P, editors. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET, OnToContent, ORM, PerSys, OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium, RDDS, SWWS, and SeBGIS 2006, Montpellier, France, October 29 - November 3, 2006. Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Leu G, Namatame A. Evolving Failure Resilience in Scale-Free Networks. In: Gen M, Green D, Katai O, McKay B, Namatame A, Sarker RA, et al., editors. Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. page 49–59.

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

Andrew E. A Stolen Exoplanet That Will Kill Us All? Here’s What We Do Know About ‘Planet Nine’ [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/stolen-exoplanet-will-kill-us-all-here-s-what-we-do-know-about-planet-nine/

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. Role of Three Consultants in Award of Emergency School Assistance Program/Community Groups Grants. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Sep. Report No.: B-164031(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Narita D. Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and climate change mitigation: An analysis of economic optimality and policy making [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2008.

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

Kelly M. Washington Memo; Household Hiring Is Trickier With New Broom in Capital. New York Times. 1993;A1.

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

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