How to format your references using the Cancer Epidemiology citation style

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

[1]

R. Lill, Function and biogenesis of iron-sulphur proteins, Nature 460 (2009) 831–838.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.M. Wellik, M.R. Capecchi, Hox10 and Hox11 genes are required to globally pattern the mammalian skeleton, Science 301 (2003) 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.Z. Chen, D.J. Fray, T.W. Farthing, Direct electrochemical reduction of titanium dioxide to titanium in molten calcium chloride, Nature 407 (2000) 361–364.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.-S. Park, D.P. Mohapatra, H. Misonou, J.S. Trimmer, Graded regulation of the Kv2.1 potassium channel by variable phosphorylation, Science 313 (2006) 976–979.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.B. Yanni, Translational ADMET for Drug Therapy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

I.D. Gil Chaves, Process Analysis and Simulation in Chemical Engineering, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.J. Miranda Ackerman, Extracting a Causal Network of News Topics, in: P. Herrero, H. Panetto, R. Meersman, T. Dillon (Eds.), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 Workshops: Confederated International Workshops: OTM Academy, Industry Case Studies Program, EI2N, INBAST, META4eS, OnToContent, ORM, SeDeS, SINCOM, and SOMOCO 2012, Rome, Italy, September 10-14, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 33–42.

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 Epidemiology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, NASA Reveals Latest Warp-Drive Ship Designs, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-reveals-latest-warp-drive-ship-designs/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, GAO Thesaurus, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Richardson, Edgard Varèse and the Visual Avant-Garde: A Comparative Study of Intégrales and Works of Art by Marcel Duchamp, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2005.

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

[1]

M. Mazzetti, B. Hubbard, M. Rosenberg, Yemenis View Strikes as Proof of Role of U.S, New York Times (2016) 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 Epidemiology
Abbreviation	Cancer Epidemiol.
ISSN (print)	1877-7821
Scope	Cancer Research Epidemiology Oncology