How to format your references using the Current Oncology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Oncology 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. Norman M. Physics. Have cuprates earned their stripes? Science. 2004;303:1985–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Heinze S, Homberg U. Maplike representation of celestial E-vector orientations in the brain of an insect. Science. 2007;315:995–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cronberg N, Natcheva R, Hedlund K. Microarthropods mediate sperm transfer in mosses. Science. 2006;313:1255.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ogushi S, Palmieri C, Fulka H, Saitou M, Miyano T, Fulka J Jr. The maternal nucleolus is essential for early embryonic development in mammals. Science. 2008;319:613–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Feldkamp FL, Whalen RC. Financial Stability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Johansson T. The Shipping Industry, Ocean Governance and Environmental Law in the Paradigm Shift: In Search of a Pragmatic Balance for the Arctic. Donner P, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. He M, Lu T-M. Cu-Dielectric Interfaces. In: Lu T-M, editor. Metal-Dielectric Interfaces in Gigascale Electronics: Thermal and Electrical Stability. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 57–74.

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 Oncology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. 99.999% Certainty Humans Are Driving Global Warming: New Study. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Estimates of Potential Savings by Retiring Two Aircraft Carriers Early. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Mar. Report No.: T-NSIAD-88-16.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Davis K. Manifesting archetypal energy through music [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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. Greenhouse L. Court Hears Whether a Drug Statement Is Protected Free Speech for Students. New York Times. 2007 Mar 20;A16.

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 Oncology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Oncol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1523-3790
ISSN (online)	1534-6269
Scope	Oncology