How to format your references using the Cancer Genetics citation style

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

Baruch J. Practical science has a global reach and appeal. Nature 2014;507:141.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Jensen K, Murray F. Intellectual property. Enhanced: intellectual property landscape of the human genome. Science 2005;310:239–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Körtner G, Brigham RM, Geiser F. Winter torpor in a large bird. Nature 2000;407:318.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Coop G, Wen X, Ober C, Pritchard JK, Przeworski M. High-resolution mapping of crossovers reveals extensive variation in fine-scale recombination patterns among humans. Science 2008;319:1395–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wolf KH, Barnes R. VoIP Emergency Calling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Welfens PJJ, Weske M, editors. Digital Economic Dynamics: Innovations, Networks and Regulations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Frank AU. Why Is Scale an Effective Descriptor for Data Quality? The Physical and Ontological Rationale for Imprecision and Level of Detail. In: Navratil G, editor. Research Trends in Geographic Information Science, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 39–61.

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 Genetics.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. The Cities Of The Future Could Be Built By Microbes. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-cities-of-the-future-could-be-built-by-microbes/ (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. District of Columbia: Performance Report Shows Continued Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Green EI. Caregiver wellness: An inquiry of health risks among frontline direct caregivers of the elderly and disabled. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2009.

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]

Hannibal ME. Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf. New York Times 2012:A23.

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 Genetics
Abbreviation	Cancer Genet.
ISSN (print)	2210-7762
Scope	Cancer Research Genetics Molecular Biology