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]

Shastri N. Cell biology. Peptides, scrambled and stitched. Science 2006;313:1398–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kohno M, Koizumi Y. Tokaimura accident. Neutron dose estimates from 5-yen coins. Nature 2000;406:693.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bao H, Lyons JR, Zhou C. Triple oxygen isotope evidence for elevated CO2 levels after a Neoproterozoic glaciation. Nature 2008;453:504–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gross L, Mohn F, Liljeroth P, Repp J, Giessibl FJ, Meyer G. Measuring the charge state of an adatom with noncontact atomic force microscopy. Science 2009;324:1428–31.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jakubith M. Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 1998.

An edited book

[1]

Wu Y, editor. Advanced Technology in Teaching - Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Conference on Teaching and Computational Science (WTCS 2009): Volume 1: Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing and Education. vol. 116. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Morton KW. Numerical Methods for Non-Linear Hyperbolic Equations of Mathematical Physics. In: Prato GD, Geymonat G, editors. Hyperbolicity: Lectures given at the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.), held in Cortona (Arezzo), Italy, June 24 – July 2, 1976, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 193–242.

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]

Fang J. Scientific Explanations For Halloween Monsters. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/5-monsters-and-their-not-so-spooky-explanations/ (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. Y2K Computing Challenge: Day One Planning and Operations Guide. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nam S. A method for teaching jazz improvisation to beginning pianists in a group setting. 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]

Williams J. Opening Up About a Closed World. New York Times 2017:C6.

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