How to format your references using the Cancer Gene Therapy citation style

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

McKnight SL. On getting there from here. Science 2010; 330: 1338–1339.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barthelme D, Sauer RT. Identification of the Cdc48•20S proteasome as an ancient AAA+ proteolytic machine. Science 2012; 337: 843–846.

A journal article with 3 authors

Puckett JG, Kelley DH, Ouellette NT. Searching for effective forces in laboratory insect swarms. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4766.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chabot JR, Pedraza JM, Luitel P, van Oudenaarden A. Stochastic gene expression out-of-steady-state in the cyanobacterial circadian clock. Nature 2007; 450: 1249–1252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent O. IP Telephony. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

Coen S (ed.). Mathematicians in Bologna 1861–1960. Springer: Basel, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Woodhead I. Modelling Electromagnetic Field Sensors. In: Mukhopadhyay SC, Huang RYM (eds). Sensors: Advancements in Modeling, Design Issues, Fabrication and Practical Applications. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, pp 61–74.

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 Gene Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Awesome Flying Car Prototype Unveiled. IFLScience. 2014.https://www.iflscience.com/technology/awesome-flying-car-prototype-unveiled/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Federal Aviation Administration’s Acquisition of the Advanced Automation System. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mayo J. Rates and factors associated with child maltreatment recurrence for children from birth to 5 years of age in Ventura County. 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

Feeney K. Home Is Where The Food Is Grown. New York Times. 2008; : NJ1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Gene Therapy
Abbreviation	Cancer Gene Ther.
ISSN (print)	0929-1903
ISSN (online)	1476-5500
Scope	Cancer Research Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine