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]

McNutt M. A new look. Science. 2014;344:781.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Schulz HN, Schulz HD. Large sulfur bacteria and the formation of phosphorite. Science. 2005;307:416–418.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schroder K, Zhou R, Tschopp J. The NLRP3 inflammasome: a sensor for metabolic danger? Science. 2010;327:296–300.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kaur G, Pickrell G, Kimsawatde G, et al. Synthesis, cytotoxicity, and hydroxyapatite formation in 27-Tris-SBF for sol-gel based CaO-P2O5-SiO2-B2O3-ZnO bioactive glasses. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bates J, Gallon C, Bocci M, et al. Converged Multimedia Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Liu S, Duan Z, editors. Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method: 5th International Workshop, SOFL+MSVL 2015, Paris, France, November 6, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gotoh T, Nakano T, Shiga Y, et al. Energy Dissipation and Pressure in 4d Turbulence. In: Kaneda Y, editor. IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, September, 11-14, 2006. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 27–34.

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. Hunter-Gatherer Societies Have Three-Tiered Social Networks. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Activities of the National Institute of Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974. Report No.: B-164031(1). .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Crivello A. DNA methylation of the interferon-gamma promoter in association with overexpression of the interferon-gamma gene in periodontal disease [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2009.

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]

Poniewozik J. A Tabloid Murder Tale of Little Suspense. New York Times. 2017 Sep 25;C6.

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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