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

Raushel FM (2013) Biochemistry. Not an oxidase, but a peroxidase. Science 342:943–944

A journal article with 2 authors

Otterstrom JJ, van Oijen AM (2009) Biochemistry. Nudging through a nucleosome. Science 325:547–548

A journal article with 3 authors

Grosman C, Zhou M, Auerbach A (2000) Mapping the conformational wave of acetylcholine receptor channel gating. Nature 403:773–776

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Polishchuk I, Bracha AA, Bloch L, et al (2017) Coherently aligned nanoparticles within a biogenic single crystal: A biological prestressing strategy. Science 358:1294–1298

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brigo D, Morini M, Pallavicini A (2013) Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Johansson T (2015) The Shipping Industry, Ocean Governance and Environmental Law in the Paradigm Shift: In Search of a Pragmatic Balance for the Arctic. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Tariq N, Chand B (2013) Presurgical GI Evaluation in Bariatric Surgery. In: Thompson CC (ed) Bariatric Endoscopy. Springer, New York, NY, pp 39–47

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) Ode To The Fruit Fly: Tiny Lab Subject Crucial To Basic Research. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ode-fruit-fly-tiny-lab-subject-crucial-basic-research/. 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 (2016) Next Generation Air Transportation System: Information on Expenditures, Schedule, and Cost Estimates, Fiscal Years 2004 -- 2030. 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

Zohourian M (2015) Supply Chain Decision Making Under Demand Uncertainty and the Use of Control Systems: A Correlational Study. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Greenhouse L (2007) Guantánamo Detainees Enjoy Historic Protections, Administration Says. New York Times A29

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

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