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

Dickson BJ. Wired for sex: the neurobiology of Drosophila mating decisions. Science. 322(5903), 904–909 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Padhi A, Ma L. Genetic and epidemiological insights into the emergence of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) across Asia and Africa. Sci. Rep. 4, 7040 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldman SA, Nedergaard M, Windrem MS. Glial progenitor cell-based treatment and modeling of neurological disease. Science. 338(6106), 491–495 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Buhl M, Erbe A, Grebing J, Wintz S, Raabe J, Fassbender J. Lateral spin transfer torque induced magnetic switching at room temperature demonstrated by x-ray microscopy. Sci. Rep. 3, 2945 (2013).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bhaduri S, Mukesh D. Homogeneous Catalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bai YL, Zheng QS, Wei YG, editors. IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical Behavior and Micro-Mechanics of Nanostructured Materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Beijing, China, June 27–30, 2005. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang Y, Guo D. System of Time-Varying Linear Equations. In: Zhang Functions and Various Models. Guo D (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 49–60 (2015).

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. Well Preserved Fossilized Flying Reptile Eggs Found [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/well-preserved-fossilized-flying-reptile-eggs-found/.

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. Information Technology: OMB Can More Effectively Use Its Investment Reviews. 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

Holland JH. Investigating the relationship between the policy implementation process and the utilization of information technology in a constitutional republic: The case of I-269 NEPA process. (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

Robinson L. The Beginning of the End. New York Times, BR11 (2017).

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

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