How to format your references using the Hormones and Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hormones and 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

Primavera JH (2005) Global voices of science: Mangroves, fishponds, and the quest for sustainability. Science 310:57–59

A journal article with 2 authors

Guo Z, Ohlstein B (2015) Stem cell regulation. Bidirectional Notch signaling regulates Drosophila intestinal stem cell multipotency. Science 350:

A journal article with 3 authors

Narayan V, Ramaswamy S, Menon N (2007) Long-lived giant number fluctuations in a swarming granular nematic. Science 317:105–108

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Episkopou V, Arkell R, Timmons PM, et al (2001) Induction of the mammalian node requires Arkadia function in the extraembryonic lineages. Nature 410:825–830

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor K, Aardema F, Pélissier M-C (2006) Beyond Reasonable Doubt. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Maudet N, Parsons S, Rahwan I (2007) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kemp MC, Binh T-N (2009) On Trade Gains and International Disparities in Factor Proportions. In: Kamihigashi T, Zhao L (eds) International Trade and Economic Dynamics: Essays in Memory of Koji Shimomura. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 13–18

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 Hormones and Cancer.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Houseplants could one day power TVs, computers, and more. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/houseplants-could-one-day-power-tvs-computers-and-more/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1981) The Guaranteed Student Loan Information System Needs a Thorough Redesign To Account for the Expenditure of Billions. 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

Greenfield Pace JA (2016) The influence of accountability and commitment on team performance of airline flight crews. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Spencer H, Sisario B (2016) $3 Million Award in Rolling Stone Case. New York Times B2

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	Hormones and Cancer
Abbreviation	Horm. Cancer
ISSN (print)	1868-8497
ISSN (online)	1868-8500
Scope	Cancer Research Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Oncology Endocrine and Autonomic Systems