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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Hansson GK. Medicine. LIGHT hits the liver. Science 316(5822), 206–207 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Sholl DS, Johnson JK. Materials science. Making high-flux membranes with carbon nanotubes. Science 312(5776), 1003–1004 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

Grbic A, Jiang L, Merlin R. Near-field plates: subdiffraction focusing with patterned surfaces. Science 320(5875), 511–513 (2008).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Willingham S, Outeiro TF, DeVit MJ, Lindquist SL, Muchowski PJ. Yeast genes that enhance the toxicity of a mutant huntingtin fragment or alpha-synuclein. Science 302(5651), 1769–1772 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laykin E. Investigative Computer Forensics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013).

An edited book

Shaw R (Ed.). Community Practices for Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan. Springer Japan, Tokyo (2014).

A chapter in an edited book

Yehezkel C, Haberman B. Bridging the Gap Between School Computing and the “Real World”. In: Informatics Education – The Bridge between Using and Understanding Computers: International Conference in Informatics in Secondary Schools – Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2006, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 7-11, 2006. Proceedings. Mittermeir RT (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 38–47 (2006).

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

Davis J. ‘Scientists Turn Blood Cells Into Neurons’ (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-turn-blood-cells-neurons/.

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. The Excepted Service: A Research Profile, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1997).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mycroft D. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, (2012).

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

Southall A. 2 Charged With Murder After a Buried Body Is Found in New Jersey, (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

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