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. Kher U. A call for collaboration. Nature. 2010;466:S21-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dey S, Joshi A. Effects of constant immigration on the dynamics and persistence of stable and unstable Drosophila populations. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1405.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sekiguchi A, Kinjo R, Ichinohe M. A stable compound containing a silicon-silicon triple bond. Science. 2004;305:1755–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Isbell F, Calcagno V, Hector A, Connolly J, Harpole WS, Reich PB, et al. High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services. Nature. 2011;477:199–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rezzoug A, El-Hadi Zaïm M. Non-conventional Electrical Machines. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

1. Milutinović DL. Cells and Robots: Modeling and Control of Large-Size Agent Populations. Lima PU, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Suzuki O. Detection methods. In: Watanabe K, editor. Drugs and Poisons in Humans: A Handbook of Practical Analysis. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 33–43.

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. Andrew D. You Won’t Believe What They Found Inside This Dead Anaconda [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-anaconda-turns-cannabilism/

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. Concerns Over Labor’s Ability To Implement the Job Training Partnership Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Apr. Report No.: HRD-85-61.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gade S. Design and Implementation of Hybrid Hyperchaotic Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. de la MERCED MJ. Dole Seeking To Go Public With Shares Once More. New York Times. 2017 Apr 26;B5.

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