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]

Gilmour J. Geochemistry. The solar system’s first clocks. Science 2002;297:1658–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hor H, Tafti M. Physiology. How much sleep do we need? Science 2009;325:825–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Passarelli L, Rivalta E, Shuler A. Dike intrusions during rifting episodes obey scaling relationships similar to earthquakes. Sci Rep 2014;4:3886.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang C, Deng L, Hong M, Akkaraju GR, Inoue J, Chen ZJ. TAK1 is a ubiquitin-dependent kinase of MKK and IKK. Nature 2001;412:346–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lehman R, McMillan LG. Options for Volatile Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Sadovnichiy VA, Zgurovsky MZ, editors. Advances in Dynamical Systems and Control. vol. 69. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ghigi N. History as the Unveiling of the Telos. the Husserlian Critique of the Wel Tanschauungen. In: Tymieniecka A-T, editor. Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Three: Logos of History - Logos of Life. Historicity, Time, Nature, Communication, Consciousness, Alterity, Culture, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006, p. 79–90.

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]

Carpineti A. NASA Unveils New Mars Spacesuits. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-s-new-spacesuits-proceeding-full-speed/ (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. Medical ADP Systems: Analysis of Technical Aspects of DOD’s Composite Health Care System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Voma SK. Design of Power Management Circuit for Energy Harvesting Applications. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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. Words And Deeds; The Guinier Affair Aggravates Clinton’s Credibility Problem. New York Times 1993:41.

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