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

Lindley D. Questions of direction. Nature. 410(6826), 305 (2001).

A journal article with 2 authors

Lobanov AP, Zensus JA. A cosmic double helix in the archetypical quasar 3C273. Science. 294(5540), 128–131 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Franzoni C, Scellato G, Stephan P. Science policy. Changing incentives to publish. Science. 333(6043), 702–703 (2011).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nakagawa A, Matsuzaki C, Matsumura E, et al. (R,S)-tetrahydropapaveroline production by stepwise fermentation using engineered Escherichia coli. Sci. Rep. 4, 6695 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willatzen M, Lew Yan Voon LC. Separable Boundary-Value Problems in Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Hinchey M, Coyle L, editors. Conquering Complexity. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Simpson C, Marinov M. University Autonomy in the Age of Marketization. In: (Re)Discovering University Autonomy: The Global Market Paradox of Stakeholder and Educational Values in Higher Education. Turcan RV, Reilly JE, Bugaian L (Eds.), Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 73–84 (2016).

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

Luntz S. Antidepressants Don’t Work for Children And Adolescents [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antidepressants-dont-work-for-children-and-adolescents/.

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. Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miller A. Group Mentoring Program to Empower Transitional-Aged Youth: A Grant Proposal. (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

Crow K. An Old-Fashioned Leather Bar Looks for a Good Home. New York Times, 146 (2001).

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