How to format your references using the Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Adam D. Chemistry journal reacts to dispute. Nature. 2001;412:669.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Milton AL, Everitt BJ. Neuroscience. Wiping drug memories. Science. 2012;336:167–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gosse NJ, Nevin LM, Baier H. Retinotopic order in the absence of axon competition. Nature. 2008;452:892–895.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Rahman MA, Masuda A, Ohe K, et al. HnRNP L and hnRNP LL antagonistically modulate PTB-mediated splicing suppression of CHRNA1 pre-mRNA. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2931.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Han CC, Akcasu AZ. Scattering and Dynamics of Polymers. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Cena L. Prendersi cura dei bambini e dei loro genitori: La ricerca clinica per l’intervento. Baldoni F, Imbasciati A, editors. Milano: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bera S, Biswas A, Bhattacharya BB. A Fast Digital-Geometric Approach for Granulometric Image Analysis. In: Biswas GP, Mukhopadhyay S, editors. Recent Advances in Information Technology: RAIT-2014 Proceedings. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014. p. 37–47.

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 Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Study Reveals Bite Strength Of Stegosaurus Was Similar To A Cow [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sophie-stegosaurus-had-surprisingly-strong-bite/.

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. Asian Aeronautics: Technology Acquisition Drives Industry Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994. Report No.: NSIAD-94-140. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Djajalaksana YM. A National Survey of Instructional Strategies Used to Teach Information Systems Courses: An Exploratory Investigation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2011.

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]

Wagner J. Baseball; Mets Face Pitching Decisions. New York Times. 2017 Mar 27;B12.

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	Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Anticancer Ther.
ISSN (print)	1473-7140
ISSN (online)	1744-8328
Scope	Oncology Pharmacology (medical)