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. Service RF. Battle to become the next-generation x-ray source. Science. 2002;298:1356–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schiøtz J, Jacobsen KW. A maximum in the strength of nanocrystalline copper. Science. 2003;301:1357–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Behrens TEJ, Hunt LT, Rushworth MFS. The computation of social behavior. Science. 2009;324:1160–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Brown MG, Dokun AO, Heusel JW, Smith HR, Beckman DL, Blattenberger EA, et al. Vital involvement of a natural killer cell activation receptor in resistance to viral infection. Science. 2001;292:934–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Vento JJ. Financial Independence (Getting to Point X ). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Wadkar S. Pro Apache Hadoop. Second Edition. Siddalingaiah M, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sarma D, Sarma KK. Bio-Inspired Soft-Computational Framework for Speech and Image Application. In: Bansal JC, Singh PK, Deep K, Pant M, Nagar AK, editors. Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2012): Volume 1. New Delhi: Springer India; 2013. p. 53–64.

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. Three Astronauts To Launch Into Space Today [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/three-astronauts-launch-space-today/

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. Advanced Imaging Technology: TSA Needs Additional Information before Procuring Next-Generation Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Mar. Report No.: GAO-14-357.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Echols KI. Authentic Leadership, Research Integrity, and Institutions of Higher Learning: Why Focusing on Departmental Leadership is Critical for Preserving the Sanctity of Science [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State 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. Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Hometown; Perot Isn’t Necessarily Texarkana’s Favorite Son. New York Times. 1992 Jun 14;128.

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