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

Stehfest E. Diet: Food choices for health and planet. Nature. 2014 Nov 27;515(7528):501–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson PM, Ollason JC. Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics. Nature. 2001 Sep 27;413(6854):417–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shenvi N, Roy S, Tully JC. Dynamical steering and electronic excitation in NO scattering from a gold surface. Science. 2009 Nov 6;326(5954):829–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Teeling EC, Scally M, Kao DJ, Romagnoli ML, Springer MS, Stanhope MJ. Molecular evidence regarding the origin of echolocation and flight in bats. Nature. 2000 Jan 13;403(6766):188–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coenen T. Essentials of Corporate Fraud. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Guimarães KS, Panchenko A, Przytycka TM, editors. Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: 4th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2009, Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 29-31, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Maghazil A, Yellowlees P. Novel Approaches to Clinical Care in Mental Health: From Asynchronous Telepsychiatry to Virtual Reality. In: Lech M, Song I, Yellowlees P, Diederich J, editors. Mental Health Informatics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 57–78.

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

Hamilton K. How Your Parent’s Lifespan Affects Your Health [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-your-parents-lifespan-affects-your-health/

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. Transition Series: NASA Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Nov. Report No.: OCG-89-15TR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen HT. The ugly duckling: Juvenile delinquents in non-delinquent networks [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Oestreich JR. Period Band Saves Empress. New York Times. 2017 Feb 16;C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stehfest 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Stehfest 2014; Thompson and Ollason 2001).

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

Two authors: (Thompson and Ollason 2001)
Three or more authors: (Teeling et al. 2000)

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