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. Fischer D. Planetary science: early start for rocky planets. Nature. 2012;486:331–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gardner KH, Correa F. Plant science. How plants see the invisible. Science. 2012;335:1451–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bao S, Chan VT, Merzenich MM. Cortical remodelling induced by activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons. Nature. 2001;412:79–83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hu Y, Baud V, Oga T, Kim KI, Yoshida K, Karin M. IKKalpha controls formation of the epidermis independently of NF-kappaB. Nature. 2001;410:710–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Reeder L. Guide to Green Building Rating Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Kulikov AS, Kuznetsov SO, Pevzner P, editors. Combinatorial Pattern Matching: 25th Annual Symposium, CPM 2014, Moscow, Russia, June 16-18, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Piattoni S. Exploring European Union Macro-regional Strategies through the Lens of Multilevel Governance. In: Gänzle S, Kern K, editors. A ‘Macro-regional’ Europe in the Making: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 75–97.

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. Not Everything Gives You Cancer, But Eating Too Much Processed Meat Certainly Can. IFLScience. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2010 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Nov. Report No.: GAO-11-120R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Giles CL. Faculty mentoring of undergraduate students: A qualitative phenomenological study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2015.

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. Weber B. Henry Worsley, a British Adventurer Trying to Cross Antarctica, Dies at 55. New York Times. 2016 Jan 26;A24.

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

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