How to format your references using the Gastric Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gastric Cancer. 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. Brumfiel G. China ponders joining fusion project. Nature. 2002;419:545.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Weissleder R, Pittet MJ. Imaging in the era of molecular oncology. Nature. 2008;452:580–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. De Pontieu B, Title A, Carlsson M. Eyeing the Sun. Probing the solar interface region. Introduction. Science. 2014;346:315.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Dai H, Ding R, Li M, Huang J, Li Y, Trevor M. Ordering Ag nanowire arrays by spontaneous spreading of volatile droplet on solid surface. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6742.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kang S. Micro/Nano Replication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Lai X, Zhou J, Li H, editors. Information Security: 14th International Conference, ISC 2011, Xi’an, China, October 26-29, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. van den Belt H. Contesting the Obesity ‘Epidemic’: Elements of a Counter Discourse. In: Korthals M, editor. Genomics, Obesity and the Struggle over Responsibilities. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. p. 39–57.

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 Gastric Cancer.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Stem Cell Therapy Success In Monkeys [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cell-therapy-success-monkeys/

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. Bilingual Education: Four Overlapping Programs Could Be Consolidated. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 May. Report No.: GAO-01-657.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. De la Pena Wing T. Remembering Malintzin’s dream: A bridge between two cultures through language and love [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

1. Kenigsberg B. You’re Killing Me Susana. New York Times. 2017 Feb 16;C13.

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	Gastric Cancer
Abbreviation	Gastric Cancer
ISSN (print)	1436-3291
ISSN (online)	1436-3305
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Gastroenterology Oncology