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]

Kimble HJ. The quantum internet. Nature 2008;453:1023–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Xu X, Norell MA. A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture. Nature 2004;431:838–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shinde DB, Majumder M, Pillai VK. Counter-ion dependent, longitudinal unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes to highly conductive and transparent graphene nanoribbons. Sci Rep 2014;4:4363.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Blewitt G, Lavallée D, Clarke P, Nurutdinov K. A new global mode of Earth deformation: seasonal cycle detected. Science 2001;294:2342–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kroupa VF. Phase Lock Loops and Frequency Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Mrozynski G. Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Collection of Problems. Wiesbaden: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sheaff MT, Singh N. Serous Fluids. In: Singh N, editor. Cytopathology: An Introduction, London: Springer; 2013, p. 101–41.

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]

Hale T. Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festivals Are Becoming Threatened By Beetles. IFLScience 2016.

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. National Transportation Safety Board: Management and Operational Improvements Found, but Strategy Needed to Utilize Cost Accounting System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

O’Grady CR. Journeys of our ancestors: Conservation science approaches to the analysis of cultural material. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

Grynbaum MM. They’re Like a Sitcom. Really. New York Times 2017:C1.

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