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. Cluver L. Children of the AIDS pandemic. Nature. 2011;474:27–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rykaczewski RR, Dunne JP. A measured look at ocean chlorophyll trends. Nature. 2011;472:E5-6; discussion E8-9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Trainor PA, Ariza-McNaughton L, Krumlauf R. Role of the isthmus and FGFs in resolving the paradox of neural crest plasticity and prepatterning. Science. 2002;295:1288–91.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wu Z-H, Shi Y, Tibbetts RS, Miyamoto S. Molecular linkage between the kinase ATM and NF-kappaB signaling in response to genotoxic stimuli. Science. 2006;311:1141–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Nash J. Diabetes and Wellbeing. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

1. Kozak I, Arevalo JF, editors. Atlas of Wide-Field Retinal Angiography and Imaging. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Militello V. Legal Norms Against the Italian Mafia. In: Elsenbroich C, Anzola D, Gilbert N, editors. Social Dimensions of Organised Crime: Modelling the Dynamics of Extortion Rackets. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 65–81.

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. Rosetta’s Comet Now Shedding Significantly More Water Into Space [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosetta-s-comet-now-shedding-significantly-more-water-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. Global Positioning System Augmentations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Feb. Report No.: RCED-96-74R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chen C-Y. The analysis of communication problems and language barriers between patients and physicians in California [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Kishkovsky S. Impact Report Clears Russian Oil Project. New York Times. 2007 Oct 9;C2.

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