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

Chen J. Smithsonian closure plan under fire. Nature. 2001 Apr;410(6832):1011.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helffrich G, Kaneshima S. Outer-core compositional stratification from observed core wave speed profiles. Nature. 2010 Dec;468(7325):807–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nagashima K, Krot AN, Yurimoto H. Stardust silicates from primitive meteorites. Nature. 2004 Apr;428(6986):921–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Raman V, Martensen SA, Reisman D, Evron E, Odenwald WF, Jaffee E, et al. Compromised HOXA5 function can limit p53 expression in human breast tumours. Nature. 2000 Jun;405(6789):974–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertau M, Müller A, Fröhlich P, Katzberg M. Industrielle Anorganische Chemie. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Spring N, Riley GF, editors. Passive and Active Measurement: 12th International Conference, PAM 2011, Atlanta, GA, USA, March 20-22, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Dissanayake CB, Chandrajith R. Iodine Geochemistry and Health. In: Chandrajith R, editor. Introduction to Medical Geology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009; pp 99–137.

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

Andrew E. Enormous Spider Web Spotted In Texas [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monster-spider-web-spotted-texas/

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. The San Francisco Regional Office, 1954-1987: Interview With Harold J. D’Ambrogia, Kenneth A. Pollock, Richard A. Sheldon, and Charles F. Vincent. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Martinez JC. Theoretically tested remediation in response to insect resistance to Bt corn and Bt cotton: A new paradigm. 2015

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

Davis JH, Kelly K. Trump Plans to Shift Infrastructure Funding to Cities, States and Business. New York Times. 2017 Jun;A18.

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