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]

Fields HL. Neuroscience. More pain; less gain. Science. 2014;345:513–514.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Xue Y, Sherman DH. Alternative modular polyketide synthase expression controls macrolactone structure. Nature. 2000;403:571–575.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chandra FA, Buzi G, Doyle JC. Glycolytic oscillations and limits on robust efficiency. Science. 2011;333:187–192.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Nguyen T, Sutton AD, Brynda M, et al. Synthesis of a stable compound with fivefold bonding between two chromium(I) centers. Science. 2005;310:844–847.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pearson D, Grace C. Weight Management. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Morrill G, Nederhof M-J, editors. Formal Grammar: 17th and 18th International Conferences, FG 2012, Opole, Poland, August 2012, Revised Selected Papers, FG 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lee C, Park M, Lee J, et al. Design and Implementation of Packet Analyzer for IEC 61850 Communication Networks in Smart Grid. In: Kim T-H, Ko D-S, Vasilakos T, et al., editors. Computer Applications for Communication, Networking, and Digital Contents: International Conferences, FGCN and DCA 2012, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2012, Gangneug, Korea, December 16-19, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 33–40.

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]

Evans K. Google’s April Fools’ Day Trick Lets You Play “Ms. Pac-Man” In Google Maps. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Army Aviation Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995. Report No.: NSIAD-96-81R. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tan SW. A pedagogical approach to selected études from Étude en douze exercices, S.136 and Études d ’exécution transcendante, S.139 by Franz Liszt [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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]

Eligon J. The Fight Card Often Features the Race Card. New York Times. 2017 Aug 25;D1.

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