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]

V. Gewin, Building up to an HIV vaccines, Nature. 456 (2008) 418.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Okamoto, A.J. Millis, Electronic reconstruction at an interface between a Mott insulator and a band insulator, Nature. 428 (2004) 630–633.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Fendorf, H.A. Michael, A. van Geen, Spatial and temporal variations of groundwater arsenic in South and Southeast Asia, Science. 328 (2010) 1123–1127.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Bertet, S. Osnaghi, A. Rauschenbeutel, G. Nogues, A. Auffeves, M. Brune, J.M. Raimond, S. Haroche, A complementarity experiment with an interferometer at the quantum-classical boundary, Nature. 411 (2001) 166–170.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-C. Plantin, Participatory Mapping, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

G. Neri, N. Donato, A. d’Amico, C. Di Natale, eds., Sensors and Microsystems: AISEM 2010 Proceedings, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.A. Cruz, L.R. Hoyos, A. Lizcano, Unsaturated Soil Response under Plane Strain Conditions Using a Servo/Suction-Controlled Biaxial Apparatus, in: C. Mancuso, C. Jommi, F. D’Onza (Eds.), Unsaturated Soils: Research and Applications: Volume 1, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 31–38.

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]

S. Luntz, Venus May Have Had Oceans Of Carbon Dioxide, IFLScience. (2015).

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, Controls Over Nonimmigrant Aliens Remain Ineffective, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.S. Blasdel, A phenomenological study of barriers for women in federal law enforcement, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2010.

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]

J. Schwartz, You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain, New York Times. (2017) ED6.

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

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