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

Price RM (2012) IBI* series winner. How we got here: an inquiry-based activity about human evolution. Science 338:1554–1555

A journal article with 2 authors

Goette L, Meier S (2011) Economics. Can integration tame conflicts? Science 334:1356–1357

A journal article with 3 authors

Patt AG, Ogallo L, Hellmuth M (2007) Sustainability. Learning from 10 years of climate outlook forums in Africa. Science 318:49–50

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Weiss J, Pyrski M, Jacobi E, et al (2011) Loss-of-function mutations in sodium channel Nav1.7 cause anosmia. Nature 472:186–190

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon J (2017) Banach, Fréchet, Hilbert and Neumann Spaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Eachempati SR, Reed RL II (2015) Acute Cholecystitis, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

de Meatza I, Miguel O, Cendoya I, et al (2015) GREENLION Project: Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Low Cost Greener Li-Ion Batteries. In: Briec E, Müller B (eds) Electric Vehicle Batteries: Moving from Research towards Innovation: Reports of the PPP European Green Vehicles Initiative. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 45–60

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

Hale T (2015) Here’s What Ursula Would Look Like If She Had Evolved In Different Ocean Environments. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/buzzfeed-re-imagine-ursula-little-mermaid-if-she-evolved-different-environments/. 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 (1988) [Comments on Responsibility for Peacetime Administration of Ready Reserve Fleet]. 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

Hasan SN (2012) Design and optimization of 2012 Formula SAE chassis with finite element analysis for CSULB. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Lovett I, Nagourney A (2014) Deadly Rampage in College Town After Video Rant. New York Times A1

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