How to format your references using the Clinical Sarcoma Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Sarcoma Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Boyd IL. Ecology. The art of ecological modeling. Science. 2012;337:306–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. von Messling V, Cattaneo R. Virology. A henipavirus vaccine in sight. Science. 2012;337:651–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Song T-RA, Helmberger DV, Grand SP. Low-velocity zone atop the 410-km seismic discontinuity in the northwestern United States. Nature. 2004;427:530–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sumino A, Sumikama T, Iwamoto M, Dewa T, Oiki S. The open gate structure of the membrane-embedded KcsA potassium channel viewed from the cytoplasmic side. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Linacre AMT, Tobe SS. Wildlife DNA Analysis. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Tuberosa R, Graner A, Frison E, editors. Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources: Volume 1. Managing, sequencing and mining genetic resources. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tenny L, Hirani Z. Loading Entities and Navigation Properties. In: Hirani Z, editor. Entity Framework 40 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2010. p. 155–88.

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 Sarcoma Research.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Seven Things Worth Knowing About Mosquitoes [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seven-things-worth-knowing-about-mosquitoes/

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. Passenger Rail Security: Enhanced Federal Leadership Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Oct. Report No.: GAO-06-181T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kim BG. Mercury-containing species and carbon dioxide adsorption studies on inorganic compounds using density functional theory [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2010.

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. Brantley B. What the Singing Dead Recall. New York Times. 2017 Jul 17;C1.

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	Clinical Sarcoma Research
Abbreviation	Clin. Sarcoma Res.
ISSN (online)	2045-3329
Scope