How to format your references using the Chinese Journal of Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Journal of Cancer. 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. Bender E. Big data in biomedicine: 4 big questions. Nature. 2015;527:S19.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Knee LB, Brunt CM. A massive cloud of cold atomic hydrogen in the outer Galaxy. Nature. 2001;412:308–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pan X, Liu F, Zhang M. Comment on “Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness.” Science. 2012;335:1441; author reply 1441.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zepik H, Shavit E, Tang M, Jensen TR, Kjaer K, Bolbach G, et al. Chiral amplification of oligopeptides in two-dimensional crystalline self-assemblies on water. Science. 2002;295:1266–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sheriff RE, Hu YF. Mobile Satellite Communication Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2001.

An edited book

1. Have HT, editor. Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Danielescu A, Savio-Ramos C, Sadauskas J. Constructing an Embodied Interaction for Concept Mapping. In: Stephanidis C, editor. HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts: International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 23–7.

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 Chinese Journal of Cancer.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Game-Changing Photocell Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Fuel [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/gamechanging-photocell-turns-carbon-dioxide-into-fuel/

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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Faces Challenges in Fully Realizing Benefits of Satellite Acquisition Improvements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Mar. Report No.: GAO-12-563T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Brenner DS. The Phonetics of Mandarin Tones in Conversation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

1. Musto M. Spinning a Hypnotic Beat. New York Times. 2017 Jun 28;D2.

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	Chinese Journal of Cancer
Abbreviation	Chin. J. Cancer
ISSN (online)	1944-446X
Scope	Oncology