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]

F.D. Sack, Plant sciences. Yoda would be proud: valves for land plants, Science. 304 (2004) 1461–1462.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Nilsson, D.N. Payne, Physics. High-power fiber lasers, Science. 332 (2011) 921–922.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.K. Sun, Z. Siprashvili, P.A. Khavari, Advances in skin grafting and treatment of cutaneous wounds, Science. 346 (2014) 941–945.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Hessa, H. Kim, K. Bihlmaier, C. Lundin, J. Boekel, H. Andersson, I. Nilsson, S.H. White, G. von Heijne, Recognition of transmembrane helices by the endoplasmic reticulum translocon, Nature. 433 (2005) 377–381.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Douglas, Achieving Business Success with GIS, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

N. Worth, C. Dwyer, eds., Identities and Subjectivities, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X.-J. Yang, D. Baleanu, J.A.T. Machado, Application of the Local Fractional Fourier Series to Fractal Signals, in: J.A.T. Machado, D. Baleanu, A.C.J. Luo (Eds.), Discontinuity and Complexity in Nonlinear Physical Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 63–89.

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]

E. Andrew, 3D Printed Robot Takes Hoverbike Out For A Spin, IFLScience. (2014).

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, Naval Safety School Relocation: More Credible Cost Analysis Is Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

U. Ameen, Social and political climates’ influence on Muslim American students’ intersectional identity, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Putin Orders “Stalingrad” On Memorial, New York Times. (2004) A5.

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
Scope