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

Kerr RA. CLIMATOLOGY: Does a Climate Clock Get a Noisy Boost? Science. 2000 Oct 27;290(5492):697–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abanin DA, Levitov LS. Quantized Transport in Graphene p-n Junctions in a Magnetic Field. Science. 2007 Aug 3;317(5838):641–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Balachandran S, Thomas E, Barber GN. A FADD-dependent innate immune mechanism in mammalian cells. Nature. 2004 Nov 18;432(7015):401–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kartal B, Maalcke WJ, de Almeida NM, Cirpus I, Gloerich J, Geerts W, et al. Molecular mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation. Nature. 2011 Oct 2;479(7371):127–30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez A. Voice Over LTE. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Gorter D, Zenotz V, Cenoz J, editors. Minority Languages and Multilingual Education: Bridging the Local and the Global. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Bakhtadze NN, Lototsky VA. Knowledge-Based Models of Nonlinear Systems Based on Inductive Learning. In: Różewski P, Novikov D, Bakhtadze N, Zaikin O, editors. New Frontiers in Information and Production Systems Modelling and Analysis: Incentive Mechanisms, Competence Management, Knowledge-based Production. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 85–104.

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. FactCheck: Does The New Climate Deal Let China Do Nothing For 16 Years? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/factcheck-does-new-climate-deal-let-china-do-nothing-16-years/

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. Recommendation for Improving Testing of EF-111A Tactical Jamming System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Jun. Report No.: PSAD-78-130.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McElhoes JL. Spatial, Technological, and Functional Variability Among the Prehistoric Ceramics of the Southern California Coast [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Kenigsberg B. The Listings; Film Series. New York Times. 2017 Mar 9;C23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Abanin and Levitov 2007; Kerr 2000).

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

Two authors: (Abanin and Levitov 2007)
Three or more authors: (Kartal et al. 2011)

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