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

Blackburn GL. Pasteur’s Quadrant and malnutrition. Nature. 2001 Jan;409(6818):397–401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bunn M, Heinonen O. Nuclear safety. Preventing the next Fukushima. Science. 2011 Sep;333(6049):1580–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh JP, Cohen WM, Arora A. Science and the law. Working through the patent problem. Science. 2003 Feb;299(5609):1021.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Asfaw B, Gilbert WH, Beyene Y, Hart WK, Renne PR, WoldeGabriel G, et al. Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature. 2002 Mar;416(6878):317–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davies D. Philosophy of the Performing Arts. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Tubaro P. Against the Hypothesis of the End of Privacy: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Social Media. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Vu QH, Lupu M, Ooi BC. Load Balancing and Replication. In: Lupu M, Ooi BC, editors. Peer-to-Peer Computing: Principles and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 127–56.

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

Carpineti C. “Moore’s Law” For Carbon Emissions Could Mean The End Of Climate Change [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Mar [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/moores-law-for-carbon-emissions-could-mean-the-end-of-climate-change/

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. TANF and Child Welfare Programs: Increased Data Sharing Could Improve Access to Benefits and Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meissner R. Analyzing inpatient hospital costs by payer: What do they mean for the future of health care in America? 2009

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Reject Suit on Federal Money for Faith-Based Office. New York Times. 2007 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