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]

Beverley SM. Parasitology: CRISPR for Cryptosporidium. Nature. 2015;523(7561):413–414.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Perez JE, Bashirullah AK. Bureaucracy strangles Latin American research. Nature. 2000;405(6784):273.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tuckerman ME, Marx D, Parrinello M. The nature and transport mechanism of hydrated hydroxide ions in aqueous solution. Nature. 2002;417(6892):925–929.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lashuel HA, Hartley D, Petre BM, et al. Neurodegenerative disease: amyloid pores from pathogenic mutations. Nature. 2002;418(6895):291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Layer of Protection Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Ruyter DJ de, Miedema S, editors. Moral Education and Development: A Lifetime Commitment. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cimini M, Coen CS, Sangiorgi D. Functions as Processes: Termination and the $\lambda\mu\widetilde{\mu}$ -Calculus. In: Wirsing M, Hofmann M, Rauschmayer A, editors. Trustworthly Global Computing: 5th International Symposium, TGC 2010, Munich, Germany, February 24-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 73–86.

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]

Hale T. Watch A Bald Eagle Snatch A Baby Osprey From Its Nest [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-a-bald-eagle-snatch-a-baby-osprey-from-its-nest/.

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. Cost Comparison of House of Representatives Page System Versus Regular Messenger Employees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983. Report No.: GGD-83-108. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nannapaneni D. Factors associated with HPV acceptability among parents [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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 C. Austin Filmmaker Scores Sight Unseen at Sundance. New York Times. 2011 Feb 27;A27B.

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)