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]

Müller-Wodarg ICF. Planetary science. Exploring other worlds to learn more about our own. Science 2006;312:1319–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nordborg M, Weigel D. Next-generation genetics in plants. Nature 2008;456:720–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bustamante CD, Burchard EG, De la Vega FM. Genomics for the world. Nature 2011;475:163–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kemner KM, Kelly SD, Lai B, Maser J, O’loughlin EJ, Sholto-Douglas D, et al. Elemental and redox analysis of single bacterial cells by x-ray microbeam analysis. Science 2004;306:686–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Johnson Jr. MD WH, Moller MD JH. Pediatric Cardiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Levitin G, editor. Computational Intelligence in Reliability Engineering: New Metaheuristics, Neural and Fuzzy Techniques in Reliability. vol. 40. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pfennig A, Zastrow P, Kranzmann A. Supercritical CO2-Corrosion in Heat Treated Steel Pipes during Carbon Capture and Storage CCS. In: Hou MZ, Xie H, Were P, editors. Clean Energy Systems in the Subsurface: Production, Storage and Conversion: Proceedings of the 3rd Sino-German Conference “Underground Storage of CO2 and Energy”, Goslar, Germany, 21-23 May 2013, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 39–51.

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]

Luntz S. Watch Crocodiles Pluck Bats From The Air. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crocodiles-pluck-bats-air-trying-different-gif-links/ (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. Space Communications: Better Understanding of Scheduling System Limitations Needed. 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

[1]

Gonzalez R. A mentoring program for Latino foster youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Strauss B. Like Father, Like Son. Like the Cubs? No Way! New York Times 2016:B11.

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