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]

Schilling G. ASTRONOMY: Watch This Space! Science. 2000;289(5477):238b.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Winograd IJ, Roseboom EH Jr. Nuclear waste. Yucca Mountain revisited. Science. 2008;320(5882):1426–1427.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

McAlary L, Yerbury JJ, Aquilina JA. Glutathionylation potentiates benign superoxide dismutase 1 variants to the toxic forms associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3275.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

He L, Zhang A, Weese D, et al. Demographic response of cutlassfish (Trichiurus japonicus and T. nanhaiensis) to fluctuating palaeo-climate and regional oceanographic conditions in the China seas. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Banks RE, Sharp JM, Doss SD, et al. Exotic Small Mammal Care and Husbandry. Ames, Iowa, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Boldi P, Gargano L, editors. Fun with Algorithms: 5th International Conference, FUN 2010, Ischia, Italy, June 2-4, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Anger K. Adaptation to Life in Fresh Water by Decapod Crustaceans: Evolutionary Challenges in the Early Life-History Stages. In: Kawai T, Cumberlidge N, editors. A Global Overview of the Conservation of Freshwater Decapod Crustaceans. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 127–168.

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]

Andrew E. Fossils Suggest An Aquatic Plant That Bloomed Underwater Was Among First Flowering Plants [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossils-suggest-aquatic-plant-bloomed-underwater-was-among-first-flowering-plants/.

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. Highway Safety: Effectiveness of State .08 Blood Alcohol Laws. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999. Report No.: RCED-99-179. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yamada T. Comparison of cognitively diagnostic adaptive testing algorithms [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2008.

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]

Crow K. The Best and the Brightest Under Fire. New York Times. 2001 Mar 18;141.

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)