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

Wilks Y (2007) Computer science. Is there progress on talking sensibly to machines? Science 318:927–928

A journal article with 2 authors

Catlow R, Fisher A (2011) Marshall Stoneham (1940-2011). Nature 471:306

A journal article with 3 authors

Jordan SP, Lee KSM, Preskill J (2012) Quantum algorithms for quantum field theories. Science 336:1130–1133

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jiang W, Baker ML, Jakana J, et al (2008) Backbone structure of the infectious epsilon15 virus capsid revealed by electron cryomicroscopy. Nature 451:1130–1134

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hartmann AK, Weigt M (2005) Phase Transitions in Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

vom Brocke J, Rosemann M (2015) Handbook on Business Process Management 1: Introduction, Methods, and Information Systems, 2nd ed. 2015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Comazzi S (2011) Oxidative Stress in Diabetes Mellitus. In: Mandelker L, Vajdovich P (eds) Studies on Veterinary Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 77–91

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

Luntz S (2016) Have Chinese Skeletons Been Found In A Roman-Era London Grave? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/have-chinese-skeletons-been-found-in-a-romanera-london-grave/. 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) Aviation Security: Improved Controls Needed To Prevent Unauthorized Access at Key Airports. 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

Watkins D (2008) The common factors between coaching cultures and transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and high-performance organizational cultures. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Vecsey G (2010) Home Runs And Demons For Hamilton And Mantle. New York Times D1

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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