How to format your references using the Future Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future Oncology. 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

Ledford H. Patent examiners call in the jury. Nature. 448(7151), 239 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Macdonald TT, Monteleone G. Immunity, inflammation, and allergy in the gut. Science. 307(5717), 1920–1925 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

Kushiro T, Nambara E, McCourt P. Hormone evolution: The key to signalling. Nature. 422(6928), 122 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Guo B, Zhai D, Cabezas E, et al. Humanin peptide suppresses apoptosis by interfering with Bax activation. Nature. 423(6938), 456–461 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheng L, Lopez-Beltran A, Bostwick DG. Bladder Pathology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zouali M, editor. Molecular Autoimmunity. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Gauthier V, Marot M, Becker M. Cross-Layer Interaction in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: A Practical Example. In: Recent Advances in Modeling and Simulation Tools for Communication Networks and Services. Ince AN, Bragg A (Eds.), Springer US, Boston, MA, 105–120 (2007).

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 Future Oncology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Climate Meme Debunked As The ‘Tropospheric Hot Spot’ Is Found. IFLScience (2015).

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. Federal Aviation Administration: Issues Concerning the Reauthorization of Aviation Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stevens S. Aboard and Beyond. (2017).

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

Murphy MJO. Our Monster Sorority. New York Times, SR4 (2016).

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	Future Oncology
Abbreviation	Future Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1479-6694
ISSN (online)	1744-8301
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Oncology