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. Knight J. Meeting aims to find brain’s benchmarks for beauty. Nature. 2003;421:305.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. LeRoy BJ, Yankowitz M. Physics. Emergent complex states in bilayer graphene. Science. 2014;345:31–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Burstein GT, Hutchings IM, Sasaki K. Electrochemically induced annealing of stainless-steel surfaces. Nature. 2000;407:885–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Thoma R, Schulz-Gasch T, D’Arcy B, Benz J, Aebi J, Dehmlow H, et al. Insight into steroid scaffold formation from the structure of human oxidosqualene cyclase. Nature. 2004;432:118–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dayton G. Trade Mindfully. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Corsi C, Sizov F, editors. THz and Security Applications: Detectors, Sources and Associated Electronics for THz Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gallagher CJ, Corrado T. The Use of Humor to Enrich the Simulated Environment. In: Levine AI, DeMaria S, Schwartz AD, Sim AJ, editors. The Comprehensive Textbook of Healthcare Simulation. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 57–64.

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. Andrew E. The Tesla Battery Heralds The Beginning Of The End For Fossil Fuels [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/tesla-battery-heralds-beginning-end-fossil-fuels/

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. Summary of United States Assistance to Jordan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Aug. Report No.: B-179001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Li L. Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer” [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Kenigsberg B. Tom of Finland. New York Times. 2017 Oct 12;C11.

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