How to format your references using the Exploration of Targeted Anti-tumor Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Exploration of Targeted Anti-tumor Therapy (ETAT). 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

Blencowe M. Applied physics. How to strum a nanobar. Science. 2007;317:762–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray GM, Cohen JT. Policy: Rethink chemical risk assessments. Nature. 2012;489:27–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Visel A, Rubin EM, Pennacchio LA. Genomic views of distant-acting enhancers. Nature. 2009;461:199–205.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Suh B-C, Inoue T, Meyer T, Hille B. Rapid chemically induced changes of PtdIns(4,5)P2 gate KCNQ ion channels. Science. 2006;314:1454–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kay J, Tasman A. Essentials of Psychiatry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Mancuso S, Shabala S, editors. Rhythms in Plants: Phenomenology, Mechanisms, and Adaptive Significance. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Markner-Jäger B. The Rock Cycle. In: Markner-Jäger B, editor. Technical English for Geosciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 19–23.

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 Exploration of Targeted Anti-tumor Therapy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Children with Good Memories are Better Liars, Research Suggests [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/children-good-memories-are-better-liars-research-suggests/

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

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Actions Must Be Taken Now to Address Slow Pace of Federal Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jun. Report No.: T-AIMD-98-205.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spratley AM. Connecting Law and Creativity: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Creative and Innovative Economic Development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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

Hollander S. First Prize Is a Chance to Climb Everest. New York Times. 2003;D10.

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	Exploration of Targeted Anti-tumor Therapy
ISSN (online)	2692-3114
Scope