How to format your references using the Colorectal Cancer citation style

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

Douglas T. Materials science. A bright bio-inspired future. Science 299(5610), 1192–1193 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsukevich DN, Kuzmich A. Quantum state transfer between matter and light. Science 306(5696), 663–666 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Aurelio O, Hall DH, Hobert O. Immunoglobulin-domain proteins required for maintenance of ventral nerve cord organization. Science 295(5555), 686–690 (2002).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Swathy JR, Sankar MU, Chaudhary A, Aigal S, Anshup, Pradeep T. Antimicrobial silver: an unprecedented anion effect. Sci. Rep. 4, 7161 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sutt J, Lill I, Müürsepp O. The Engineer’s Manual of Construction Site Planning. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford (2013).

An edited book

Celletti A, Ferraz-Mello S (Eds.). Periodic, Quasi-Periodic and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics: Theory and Applications: Selected papers from the Fourth Meeting on Celestial Mechanics, CELMEC IV San Martino al Cimino (Italy), 11–16 September 2005. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006).

A chapter in an edited book

Song H, Guimbretière F, Ambrose MA, Lostritto C. CubeExplorer: An Evaluation of Interaction Techniques in Architectural Education. In: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007: 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part II. Baranauskas C, Palanque P, Abascal J, Barbosa SDJ (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 43–56 (2007).

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 Colorectal Cancer.

Blog post

Hamilton K. ‘Why You Should Date Your Best Friend’ (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-you-should-date-your-best-friend/.

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. Telecommunications: Federal Broadband Deployment Programs and Small Business, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2014).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yang Y. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, (2003).

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

Hubbard B, Lipton E, Levin D, Paddock RC. With Glitzy Openings in Dubai and Vancouver, Trump’s Roles Collide, (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	Colorectal Cancer
Abbreviation	Colorectal Cancer
ISSN (print)	1758-194X
ISSN (online)	1758-1958
Scope	Gastroenterology Oncology