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. Ladegaard Skov A. Materials science: Like cartilage, but simpler. Nature. 2015;517:25–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pastinen T, Hudson TJ. Cis-acting regulatory variation in the human genome. Science. 2004;306:647–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lammert E, Cleaver O, Melton D. Induction of pancreatic differentiation by signals from blood vessels. Science. 2001;294:564–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Snelgrove RJ, Jackson PL, Hardison MT, Noerager BD, Kinloch A, Gaggar A, et al. A critical role for LTA4H in limiting chronic pulmonary neutrophilic inflammation. Science. 2010;330:90–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sheldrake P. The Spiritual City. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Chan TS, Cui G, editors. Asian Businesses in a Turbulent Environment: Uncertainty and Coping Strategies. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fernandez C. Treatment of Wilms Tumor in the Children’s Oncology Group. In: Pritchard-Jones K, Dome JS, editors. Renal Tumors of Childhood: Biology and Therapy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 77–99.

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. Davis J. How Will Warming Air Temperatures Impact Antarctica’s Ice Shelves? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-will-warming-air-temperatures-impact-antarcticas-ice-sheets/

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. GAO Electronic Document Request Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jan. Report No.: 142758.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Green SW. The influence of satisfaction among African American males on community college choices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 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. Barron J. Trinity Church Is Sued For Moving a Sculpture. New York Times. 2017 Apr 13;C3.

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