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

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

Git A. Research tools: A recipe for disaster. Nature 2012;484:439–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Henderson IR, Jacobsen SE. Epigenetic inheritance in plants. Nature 2007;447:418–24.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Flak MB, Neves JF, Blumberg RS. Immunology. Welcome to the microgenderome. Science 2013;339:1044–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mellman DL, Gonzales ML, Song C, Barlow CA, Wang P, Kendziorski C, et al. A PtdIns4,5P2-regulated nuclear poly(A) polymerase controls expression of select mRNAs. Nature 2008;451:1013–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tagliani M. The Practical Guide to Wall Street. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Dana L-P, Ramadani V, editors. Family Businesses in Transition Economies: Management, Succession and Internationalization. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yalçındağ S, Matta A, Şahin E, Shanthikumar JG. A Two-Stage Approach for Solving Assignment and Routing Problems in Home Health Care Services. In: Matta A, Li J, Sahin E, Lanzarone E, Fowler J, editors. Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Care Systems Engineering, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 47–59.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. How Accurately Do Movies Depict Quicksand? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/how-accurately-do-movies-depict-quicksand/ (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. Information Technology: DOD and VA Have Increased Their Sharing of Health Information, but Further Actions Are Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nevitt DS. Organic Geochemical Proxies as Indicators of Paleoenvironmental Conditions and Source Sediment Provenance in the Chenier Plain, Vermilion and Cameron Parishes, Louisiana, USA. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 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

[1]

Leland J. World Chess Smackdown! Be There! New York Times 2016:MB1.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Cancer Treat. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0305-7372
Scope	General Medicine Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging