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

Dickson BJ. Wired for sex: the neurobiology of Drosophila mating decisions. Science. 2008;322(5903):904-909.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Higgins P, Elton S. Anthropology. Walking on trees. Science. 2007;316(5829):1292-1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marshall CH, Pielke RA Sr, Steyaert LT. Wetlands: crop freezes and land-use change in Florida. Nature. 2003;426(6962):29-30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Toyoshima-Morimoto F, Taniguchi E, Shinya N, Iwamatsu A, Nishida E. Polo-like kinase 1 phosphorylates cyclin B1 and targets it to the nucleus during prophase. Nature. 2001;410(6825):215-220.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sofronas A. Analytical Troubleshooting of Process Machinery and Pressure Vessels. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Schweingruber FH. Atlas of Stem Anatomy in Herbs, Shrubs and Trees: Volume 1. 1st ed. (Börner A, Schulze ED, eds.). Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhu X, Song B, Ni Y, Ren Y, Li R. Software Defined Anything—From Software-Defined Hardware to Software Defined Anything. In: Song B, Ni Y, Ren Y, Li R, eds. Business Trends in the Digital Era: Evolution of Theories and Applications. Springer; 2016:83-103.

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

Luntz S. Well Preserved Fossilized Flying Reptile Eggs Found. IFLScience. June 6, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/well-preserved-fossilized-flying-reptile-eggs-found/

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. Globe Safety Product’s Inquiry Regarding Firefighters Breathing Apparatus Developed for NASA by Scott Aviation Company. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anyaoha AL. Surgical Time-out: A Nursing Team Training Approach. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Brantley B. A Historical Nightmare of Racism, Hypnotically Retold. New York Times. November 14, 2016:C2.

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