How to format your references using the Cancer Drug Resistance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cancer Drug Resistance (CDR). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Cannatella DC. Comment on ‘Habitat split and the global decline of amphibians’. Science 2008;320:874; author reply 874. [PMID: 18487175]

A journal article with 2 authors

Katoh H, Negishi M. RhoG activates Rac1 by direct interaction with the Dock180-binding protein Elmo. Nature 2003;424:461–4. [PMID: 12879077]

A journal article with 3 authors

Alboussière T, Deguen R, Melzani M. Melting-induced stratification above the Earth’s inner core due to convective translation. Nature 2010;466:744–7. [PMID: 20686572]

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pisitkun P, Deane JA, Difilippantonio MJ, Tarasenko T, Satterthwaite AB, Bolland S. Autoreactive B cell responses to RNA-related antigens due to TLR7 gene duplication. Science 2006;312:1669–72. [PMID: 16709748]

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blanchet G, Charbit M. Digital Signal and Image Processing Using MATLAB®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015

An edited book

Sachdev PL. Large Time Asymptotics for Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. New York, NY: Springer; 2010

A chapter in an edited book

Colin J-N, Tien HM. Securing a Loosely-Coupled Web-Based eLearning Ecosystem Combining Open Standards. In: Monfort V, Krempels K-H, eds. Web Information Systems and Technologies: 10th International Conference, WEBIST 2014, Barcelona, Spain, April 3-5, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. pp. 48–62.

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 Drug Resistance.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why are Parrots Such Good Copycats? IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-parrots-such-good-copycats/ (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. Education Grants Management: Actions Initiated to Correct Material Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hoang TT. Acoustic and Image Vehicle Classification System. 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

Winerip M, Schwirtz M. Prison Guard ‘Beat Up Squad’ Blamed in Death. New York Times. 2015;A1.

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 Drug Resistance
ISSN (online)	2578-532X
Scope