How to format your references using the CNS Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CNS Oncology. 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

Sheeran J. Preventing hunger: sustainability not aid. Nature 479(7374), 469–470 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Pennycook SJ, Kalinin SV. Microscopy: Hasten high resolution. Nature 515(7528), 487–488 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Berner RA, Vandenbrooks JM, Ward PD. Evolution. Oxygen and evolution. Science 316(5824), 557–558 (2007).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bhoo SH, Davis SJ, Walker J, Karniol B, Vierstra RD. Bacteriophytochromes are photochromic histidine kinases using a biliverdin chromophore. Nature 414(6865), 776–779 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Focardi SM, Fabozzi FJ, Bali TG. Mathematical Methods for Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013).

An edited book

Wu L, Schwartz O (Eds.). HIV Interactions with Dendritic Cells: Infection and Immunity. (Volume 762). Springer, New York, NY (2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Budhu A, Ji J, Wang XW. Genomic Profiling of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma. In: Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Diagnosis and Treatment. Carr BI (Ed.), Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 131–182 (2010).

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 CNS Oncology.

Blog post

Andrew E. ‘New Species Of Scorpion Discovered’ (2013). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-scorpion-discovered/.

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. School Facilities: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1995).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huynhle M. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, (2017).

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

Grynbaum MM, Stack L. O’Reilly Addresses Fans Via Podcast as Fox News Adjusts to a New Lineup, (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	CNS Oncology
Abbreviation	CNS Oncol.
ISSN (print)	2045-0907
ISSN (online)	2045-0915
Scope	General Medicine