How to format your references using the Current Colorectal Cancer Reports citation style

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

1. Heckman JJ. Skill formation and the economics of investing in disadvantaged children. Science. 2006;312:1900–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tamaru H, Selker EU. A histone H3 methyltransferase controls DNA methylation in Neurospora crassa. Nature. 2001;414:277–83.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Purohit P, Mitra A, Auerbach A. A stepwise mechanism for acetylcholine receptor channel gating. Nature. 2007;446:930–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lin J-F, Struzhkin VV, Jacobsen SD, Hu MY, Chow P, Kung J, et al. Spin transition of iron in magnesiowüstite in the Earth’s lower mantle. Nature. 2005;436:377–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Knudsen S. Cancer Diagnostics with DNA Microarrays. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Takadama K, Cioffi-Revilla C, Deffuant G, editors. Simulating Interacting Agents and Social Phenomena: The Second World Congress. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lee J-Y, Jeon BS. Risk Factors for Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia. In: Fox SH, Brotchie JM, editors. Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia in Parkinson’s Disease. London: Springer; 2014. p. 51–68.

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 Current Colorectal Cancer Reports.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. Misinformation On Social Media: Can Technology Save Us? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/misinformation-on-social-media-can-technology-save-us/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Establishment of a Central Focal Point for Telecommunications Matters. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Aug. Report No.: B-131935.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Coyle M. Pre-Service School Counselor’s Perception of Professional Identity Development During Internship [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

1. Dinardo K. Sarah Aciego on Breaking Barriers to Arctic Travel. New York Times. 2015 Sep 27;TR3.

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	Current Colorectal Cancer Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Colorectal Cancer Rep.
ISSN (print)	1556-3790
ISSN (online)	1556-3804
Scope	Gastroenterology Hepatology Oncology