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]

Harmer MP. Materials science. The phase behavior of interfaces. Science 2011;332:182–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Milisavljevic D, Fesen RA. Supernovae. The bubble-like interior of the core-collapse supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Science 2015;347:526–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Huber D, Veinante P, Stoop R. Vasopressin and oxytocin excite distinct neuronal populations in the central amygdala. Science 2005;308:245–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cordaux R, Deepa E, Vishwanathan H, Stoneking M. Genetic evidence for the demic diffusion of agriculture to India. Science 2004;304:1125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Diels J-C, Arissian L. Lasers. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Bogomolov F, Tschinkel Y, editors. Geometric Methods in Algebra and Number Theory. vol. 235. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Verrier RL. Neural Regulation of the Heart in Health and Disease. In: Gussak I, Antzelevitch C, Wilde AAM, Friedman PA, Ackerman MJ, Shen W-K, editors. Electrical Diseases of the Heart: Genetics, Mechanisms, Treatment, Prevention, London: Springer; 2008, p. 52–64.

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. What Caused China’s ‘Floating City’ In The Sky? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-caused-china-s-floating-city-sky/ (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. Tax Systems Modernization: Concerns Over Security and Privacy Elements of the Systems Architecture. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Garcia AD. Long-term shifts in adolescent Nicotine reward following early methylphenidate exposure in male and female rats. Doctoral dissertation. 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

[1]

Robles F, Alvarez L, Yee V. Entire State Shudders as Hurricane Irma Roars Into Florida. New York Times 2017:A1.

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

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