How to format your references using the EJC Supplements citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EJC Supplements. 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]

Junge C. Morbidity: A personal response. Nature 2011;480:S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Otto SP, Nuismer SL. Species interactions and the evolution of sex. Science 2004;304:1018–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schuch R, Nelson D, Fischetti VA. A bacteriolytic agent that detects and kills Bacillus anthracis. Nature 2002;418:884–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Noguchi T, Nakamura T, Kimura M, Zolensky ME, Tanaka M, Hashimoto T, et al. Incipient space weathering observed on the surface of Itokawa dust particles. Science 2011;333:1121–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lindahl D. Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Lang A, Murphy H, editors. Business and Sustainability: Between Government Pressure and Self-Regulation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

López JI, Brovka M, Escobar JM, Cascón JM, Montenegro R. T-spline Parameterization of 2D Geometries Based on the Meccano Method with a New T-mesh Optimization Algorithm. In: Sarrate J, Staten M, editors. Proceedings of the 22nd International Meshing Roundtable, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, 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 EJC Supplements.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Ancient Burnt Scroll “Virtually Unwrapped” To Reveal The Earliest Copy Of Old Testament Scripture. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-burnt-scroll-virtually-unwrapped-to-reveal-the-earliest-copy-of-old-testament-scripture/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Human Resources Information Systems Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Humphreys BP. The Role of Developmental Screening Practices in Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Analysis of All-Payer Claims Data in New Hampshire. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 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]

Pilon M. At 28, Abbott Wins 4th U.S. Title and Has a Teenage Teammate for the Olympics. New York Times 2014:D7.

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	EJC Supplements
Abbreviation	EJC Suppl.
ISSN (print)	1359-6349
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology