How to format your references using the Clinical Lung Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Lung 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

Sarewitz D. World view: Brick by brick. Nature. 2010;465(7294):29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahlund M, Andersson M. Female ducks can double their reproduction. Nature. 2001;414(6864):600-601.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu L, Ploessl K, Kung HF. Chemistry. Expanding the scope of fluorine tags for PET imaging. Science. 2013;342(6157):429-430.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Roos CF, Chwalla M, Kim K, Riebe M, Blatt R. “Designer atoms” for quantum metrology. Nature. 2006;443(7109):316-319.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kovalenko NP, Krasny YP, Krey U. Physics of Amorphous Metals. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Boukas EK, Malhamé RP, eds. Analysis, Control and Optimization of Complex Dynamic Systems. Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Laasch HU. Current Designs of Self-Expanding Stents. In: Kozarek R, Baron T, Song HY, eds. Self-Expandable Stents in the Gastrointestinal Tract. Springer; 2013:51-69.

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 Clinical Lung Cancer.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Underwater Microscope Provides New Views Of Ocean-Floor Sea Creatures In Their Natural Setting. IFLScience. July 12, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/underwater-microscope-provides-new-views-of-ocean-floor-sea-creatures-in-their-natural-setting/

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. Truck Safety: Motor Carriers Office Hampered by Limited Information on Causes of Crashes and Other Data Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Friedlander MB. Limited Sight Distance. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Feeney K. Downtown Dumplings. New York Times. January 11, 2009:NJ9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Clinical Lung Cancer
Abbreviation	Clin. Lung Cancer
ISSN (print)	1525-7304
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine