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. Earle S. Q&A: Sylvia Earle on protecting our seas. Nature. 2010;465:165.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Perlman PS, Boeke JD. Molecular biology. Ring around the retroelement. Science. 2004;303:182–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Plaks V, Koopman CD, Werb Z. Cancer. Circulating tumor cells. Science. 2013;341:1186–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sundkvist D, Krasnoselskikh V, Shukla PK, Vaivads A, André M, Buchert S, et al. In situ multi-satellite detection of coherent vortices as a manifestation of Alfvénic turbulence. Nature. 2005;436:825–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Smith CL. Basic Process Measurements. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Akhmet M. Replication of Chaos in Neural Networks, Economics and Physics. 1st ed. 2016. Fen MO, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kuswanto K, Hoen HW, Holzhacker RL. Decentralization, Foreign Direct Investment and Development in Indonesia. In: Holzhacker RL, Wittek R, Woltjer J, editors. Decentralization and Governance in Indonesia. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 105–43.

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. Andrew E. Discovery Of Microbe-Rich Groundwater In Antarctica Could Guide Our Search For Life In Space [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/discovery-microbe-rich-groundwater-antarctica-could-guide-our-search-life-space/

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. Space Station: NASA’s Software Development Approach Increases Safety and Cost Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jun. Report No.: IMTEC-92-39.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Curiel AR. A re-examination of the Meyers and Volbrecht motor equation for the identification of suspect effort [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2013.

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. Frenkel S, Scott M, Mozur P. Mystery of Motive for a Ransomware Attack: Money, Mayhem or a Message? New York Times. 2017 Jun 28;A7.

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