How to format your references using the Expert Review of Quality of Life in Cancer Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Quality of Life in Cancer Care. 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]

Young KD. Microbiology. A flipping cell wall ferry. Science. 2014;345(6193):139–140.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brunet J, Liston A. Polyploidy and gender dimorphism. Science. 2001;291(5508):1441.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dahl CD, Chen C-C, Rasch MJ. Own-race and own-species advantages in face perception: a computational view. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6654.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Mandel CR, Kaneko S, Zhang H, et al. Polyadenylation factor CPSF-73 is the pre-mRNA 3’-end-processing endonuclease. Nature. 2006;444(7121):953–956.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Le Doeuff R, Zaïm MEH. Rotating Electrical Machines. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Zalba PE. Gondwana Industrial Clays: Tandilia System, Argentina-Geology and Applications. Morosi ME, Conconi MS, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Boutellier R, Heinzen M. Diffusion of New Technologies. In: Heinzen M, editor. Growth Through Innovation: Managing the Technology-Driven Enterprise. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 59–70.

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 Quality of Life in Cancer Care.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. A ghostly trio of dying stars. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013.

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. Geostationary Weather Satellites: Progress Made, but Weaknesses in Scheduling, Contingency Planning, and Communicating with Users Need to Be Addressed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013. Report No.: GAO-13-597. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Robinson LM. Using Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Spectroscopy to Examine Exciton Dynamics in II-VI Semiconductor Nanostructures [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2001.

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]

Branch J. Standing Firm, N.H.L. Rejects C.T.E.’s Links to Concussions. New York Times. 2016 Jul 26;B9.

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 Quality of Life in Cancer Care
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Qual. Life Cancer Care
ISSN (online)	2380-9000
Scope