How to format your references using the Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis (CRO). 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

Mann A. Cosmology: The hunting of the dark. Nature. 2011 Mar 24;471(7339):433–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kenyon SJ, Bromley BC. Stellar encounters as the origin of distant Solar System objects in highly eccentric orbits. Nature. 2004 Dec 2;432(7017):598–602.

A journal article with 3 authors

Iwamoto M, Matsunaga S, Oiki S. Paradoxical one-ion pore behavior of the long β-helical peptide of marine cytotoxic polytheonamide B. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan 10;4:3636.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Esch HE, Zhang S, Srinivasan MV, Tautz J. Honeybee dances communicate distances measured by optic flow. Nature. 2001 May 31;411(6837):581–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sedlacek HH, Sapienza AM, Eid V. Ways to Successful Strategies in Drug Research and Development. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2008.

An edited book

Wang ZM, editor. Quantum Dot Devices. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. XIII, 370 p. 242 illus., 146 illus. in color. (Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology; vol. 13).

A chapter in an edited book

Davis D, Chen G, van der Zee T, Hauff C, Houben GJ. Retrieval Practice and Study Planning in MOOCs: Exploring Classroom-Based Self-regulated Learning Strategies at Scale. In: Verbert K, Sharples M, Klobučar T, editors. Adaptive and Adaptable Learning: 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 13-16, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 57–71. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014. Researchers Identify Origin of Violent Gamma-Ray Outbursts.

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. Effects of Delays in FAA’s NAS Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 May. Report No.: T-RCED-87-23.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hariharan SB. The Structure of the Blue Whirl: A Soot-Free Reacting Vortex Phenomenon [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Billard M. And Here’s How It Got on Your Head. New York Times. 2010 May 13;E6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis
ISSN (print)	0893-9675
ISSN (online)	2162-6448
Scope