How to format your references using the Cancer Treatment Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cancer Treatment Communications. 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]

R.L. Edwards, Climate change. Ice age rhythms, Science 327 (2010) 790–791.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.L. Bloodgood, B.L. Sabatini, Neuronal activity regulates diffusion across the neck of dendritic spines, Science 310 (2005) 866–869.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W.M. Rideout 3rd, K. Eggan, R. Jaenisch, Nuclear cloning and epigenetic reprogramming of the genome, Science 293 (2001) 1093–1098.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.D. Vermeer, L.A. Einwalter, T.O. Moninger, T. Rokhlina, J.A. Kern, J. Zabner, M.J. Welsh, Segregation of receptor and ligand regulates activation of epithelial growth factor receptor, Nature 422 (2003) 322–326.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.N. Henriksen, Practical Relativity, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. Pavlovic, Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Basile, C. Bernardin, M. Jara, T. Komorowski, S. Olla, Thermal Conductivity in Harmonic Lattices with Random Collisions, in: S. Lepri (Ed.), Thermal Transport in Low Dimensions: From Statistical Physics to Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 215–237.

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 Treatment Communications.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Planetary Harmony Keeps The Trappist-1 System Intact, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/planetary-harmony-keeps-the-trappist-1-system-intact/ (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, Export Controls: NASA Management Action and Improved Oversight Needed to Reduce the Risk of Unauthorized Access to Its Technologies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.A. Bubert, Highly extensible skin for a variable wing-span morphing aircraft utilizing pneumatic artificial muscle actuation, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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]

L. Greenhouse, The Court As Mr. Fix-It?, New York Times (2010) A19.

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 Treatment Communications
ISSN (print)	2213-0896
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