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

Laughlin G. Astronomy. A dance of extrasolar planets. Science. 2010 Oct;330(6000):47–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bentley WE, Payne GF. Materials science. Nature’s other self-assemblers. Science. 2013 Jul;341(6142):136–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Childers SE, Ciufo S, Lovley DR. Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis. Nature. 2002 Apr;416(6882):767–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Doh Y-J, van Dam JA, Roest AL, Bakkers EPAM, Kouwenhoven LP, De Franceschi S. Tunable supercurrent through semiconductor nanowires. Science. 2005 Jul;309(5732):272–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ippolito LJ Jr. Satellite Communications Systems Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Hoskins BL. Study of Movement Speeds Down Stairs. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhardwaj R, Sharma I, Kanwar M, Sharma R, Handa N, Kaur H, et al. LEA Proteins in Salt Stress Tolerance. In: Ahmad P, Azooz MM, Prasad MNV, editors. Salt Stress in Plants: Signalling, Omics and Adaptations. New York, NY: Springer; 2013; pp 79–112.

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

O`Callaghan J. Space-Grown Salad To Be Eaten On ISS For The First Time [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-grown-lettuce-be-eaten-iss-first-time-astronauts-boldly-grow-where-no-crew-has-gone/

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. Surface Transportation Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Manage Risk, Improve Coordination, and Measure Performance, but Additional Actions Would Enhance Its Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ortiz JA. New graduate nurses’ experiences of what accounts for their lack of professional confidence during their first year of practice. 2014

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

Wagner J. Loss to Nationals Brings Reminders of Early Season Demons. New York Times. 2017 Jun;B10.

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

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