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. Mirkin SM. DNA replication: driving past four-stranded snags. Nature. 2013;497:449–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bekerman E, Einav S. Infectious disease. Combating emerging viral threats. Science. 2015;348:282–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Giovannoni S, Temperton B, Zhao Y. Giovannoni et al. reply. Nature. 2013;499:E4-5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sick S, Reinker S, Timmer J, Schlake T. WNT and DKK determine hair follicle spacing through a reaction-diffusion mechanism. Science. 2006;314:1447–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Papadimitriou GI, Tsimoulas PA, Obaidat MS, Pomportsis AS. Multiwavelength Optical LANs. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Altay N, Litteral LA, editors. Service Parts Management: Demand Forecasting and Inventory Control. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gowers WT. How do IMO Problems Compare with Research Problems? In: Schleicher D, Lackmann M, editors. An Invitation to Mathematics: From Competitions to Research. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 55–69.

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 Sarcoma Research.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Dawn Eases Into Orbit Around The Dwarf Planet Ceres [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dawn-eases-orbit-around-dwarf-planet-ceres/

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. Drug Abuse Control Program Activities in Okinawa. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Aug. Report No.: B-164031(2).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chahine J. Social workers’ perceptions of individuals who use drugs and alcohol problematically [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

1. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Hacker Halts New Kremlin TV Channel. New York Times. 2005 Dec 13;A16.

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