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

Franson JD (2013) Physics. Beating classical computing without a quantum computer. Science 339:767–768

A journal article with 2 authors

Hatton RD, Weaver CT (2003) Immunology. T-bet or not T-bet. Science 302:993–994

A journal article with 3 authors

Cerritelli SM, Chon H, Crouch RJ (2011) Molecular biology. A new twist for topoisomerase. Science 332:1510–1511

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Terret M-E, Sherwood R, Rahman S, et al (2009) Cohesin acetylation speeds the replication fork. Nature 462:231–234

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sandén BI (2011) Design of Multithreaded Software. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Oswalt TD, French LM, Kalas P (2013) Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 3: Solar and Stellar Planetary Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Uesugi I (2015) Interfirm Networks in Manufacturing Industry Agglomerations in Japan: Evidence from Survey Data. In: Watanabe T, Uesugi I, Ono A (eds) The Economics of Interfirm Networks. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 67–92

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 (2015) Why Predicting A Flu Outbreak Is Like Betting On Football Or Flipping A Coin. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-predicting-flu-outbreak-betting-football-or-flipping-coin/. 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 (2005) Chief Information Officers: Responsibilities and Information Technology Governance at Leading Private-Sector Companies. 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

Schneider SZ (2009) Mercury sources and cycling processes in the Cape Fear River estuary, North Carolina. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Vaissié C (2017) Can Putin influence the French election? New York Times 0

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