How to format your references using the Cancer Nanotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cancer Nanotechnology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Hampsey M. Molecular biology. A new direction for gene loops. Science. 2012 Nov 2;338(6107):624–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Callan B, Gillespie I. The path to new medicines. Nature. 2007 Sep 13;449(7159):164–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Farihi J, Gänsicke BT, Koester D. Evidence for water in the rocky debris of a disrupted extrasolar minor planet. Science. 2013 Oct 11;342(6155):218–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chelur DS, Ernstrom GG, Goodman MB, Yao CA, Chen L, O’ Hagan R, et al. The mechanosensory protein MEC-6 is a subunit of the C. elegans touch-cell degenerin channel. Nature. 2002 Dec 12;420(6916):669–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kossiakoff A, Sweet WN. Systems Engineering Principles and Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Yeung DWK. Subgame Consistent Cooperation: A Comprehensive Treatise. Petrosyan LA, editor. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Reiter D. The Monte Carlo Method for Particle Transport Problems. In: Fehske H, Schneider R, Weiße A, editors. Computational Many-Particle Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 141–58.

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 Nanotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Engaging The Public With Science Can Yield Unexpected Rewards [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/engaging-public-science-can-yield-unexpected-rewards/

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. Health Information Technology: Efforts Continue but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Jun. Report No.: GAO-07-988T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chung J. Quasi-one-dimensional modeling of an adiabatic-compression preheated Ludwieg tube [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2015.

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. A Fresh Pita Oasis, Plus Kebabs and Flatbreads. New York Times. 2009 Apr 26;NJ8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hampsey 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Callan and Gillespie 2007; Hampsey 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Callan and Gillespie 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chelur et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cancer Nanotechnology
Abbreviation	Cancer Nanotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1868-6958
ISSN (online)	1868-6966
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Biomedical Engineering Oncology Pharmaceutical Science