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]

Schluter D. Evidence for ecological speciation and its alternative. Science. 2009;323:737–741.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Young R, Gill JJ. MICROBIOLOGY. Phage therapy redux--What is to be done? Science. 2015;350:1163–1164.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yamashita YM, Jones DL, Fuller MT. Orientation of asymmetric stem cell division by the APC tumor suppressor and centrosome. Science. 2003;301:1547–1550.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Bouillet P, Purton JF, Godfrey DI, et al. BH3-only Bcl-2 family member Bim is required for apoptosis of autoreactive thymocytes. Nature. 2002;415:922–926.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fullman SH. Increasing Alpha with Options. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Calvo Lopez B, Peña E, editors. Patient-Specific Computational Modeling. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Revathi P, Hemalatha M. SMS Based HPCCDD Algorithm for the Identification of Leaf Spot Diseases. In: S M, Kumar SS, editors. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Signal and Image Processing 2012 (ICSIP 2012): Volume 1. New Delhi: Springer India; 2013. p. 49–57.

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]

Luntz S. Sticky Tape Opens Path To Better Solar Cells [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/sticky-tape-opens-path-better-solar-cells/.

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. Aviation Security: Cost Estimates Related to TSA Funding of Checked Baggage Screening Systems at Los Angeles and Ontario Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007. Report No.: GAO-07-445. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bakhoda A. Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Ru(II) Vinylidenes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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]

Kelly M. Woman Who Is Miami Prosecutor Joins Clinton List for Justice Dept. New York Times. 1993 Feb 10;A20.

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

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