How to format your references using the Chemotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chemotherapy. 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

Fusi S. Neuroscience. A quiescent working memory. Science. 2008 Mar;319(5869):1495–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Korb MA, Thakkar U. SPORE series winner. Facilitating scientific investigations and training data scientists. Science. 2011 Jul;333(6042):534–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frank F, Sonenberg N, Nagar B. Structural basis for 5’-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2. Nature. 2010 Jun;465(7299):818–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ranjani V, Janeček S, Chai KP, Shahir S, Abdul Rahman RNZR, Chan K-G, et al. Protein engineering of selected residues from conserved sequence regions of a novel Anoxybacillus α-amylase. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul;4:5850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pétrowski A, Ben-Hamida S. Evolutionary Algorithms. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Bøllingtoft A, Donaldson L, Huber GP, Håkonsson DD, Snow CC, editors. Collaborative Communities of Firms: Purpose, Process, and Design. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Harris P, Garcia MB. To Fall Is Human: Falls, Gait, and Balance in Older Adults. In: Lindquist LA, editor. New Directions in Geriatric Medicine: Concepts, Trends, and Evidence-Based Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 71–90.

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 Chemotherapy.

Blog post

Luntz S. Google Launches “Street View” Of Great Barrier Reef [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/google-launches-reef-view/

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

Government Accountability Office. Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service’s Fiscal Year 2008 Expenditure Plan. 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

Ivy J. The Psychological Effect of Parental Incarceration on School-Age Children. 2011

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

Vecsey G. Family and Friendship In Stately Victor’s Name. New York Times. 2010 Apr;B15.

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	Chemotherapy
Abbreviation	Chemotherapy
ISSN (print)	0009-3157
ISSN (online)	1421-9794
Scope	General Medicine Infectious Diseases Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Drug Discovery Pharmacology