How to format your references using the International Journal of Clinical Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Clinical Oncology. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Erez N (2015) Cancer: Opening LOX to metastasis. Nature 522:41–42
A journal article with 2 authors
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Greenwood B, Owusu-Agyei S (2012) Epidemiology. Malaria in the post-genome era. Science 338:49–50
A journal article with 3 authors
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Devine JA, Baker KD, Haedrich RL (2006) Fisheries: deep-sea fishes qualify as endangered. Nature 439:29
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Passafaro M, Nakagawa T, Sala C, Sheng M (2003) Induction of dendritic spines by an extracellular domain of AMPA receptor subunit GluR2. Nature 424:677–681

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Casandjian C, Challamel N, Lanos C, Hellesland J (2013) Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 07030 USA
An edited book
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Gyssens M, Simari G (2016) Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems: 9th International Symposium, FoIKS 2016, Linz, Austria, March 7-11, 2016. Proceedings, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham
A chapter in an edited book
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Shabtai A, Elovici Y, Rokach L (2012) Data Leakage/Misuse Scenarios. In: Elovici Y, Rokach L (eds) A Survey of Data Leakage Detection and Prevention Solutions. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 39–46

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 International Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Blog post
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Andrew E (2015) Rise in Oklahoma Earthquakes Linked to Oil and Gas Activity. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rise-oklahoma-earthquakes-linked-oil-and-gas-activity/. 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
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Government Accountability Office (1994) Space Projects: Astrophysics Facility Program Contains Cost and Technical Risks. 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
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Jackson ME (2010) Where are the parents: The parent’s perspective of parental involvement in education. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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
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Burghardt LF (2006) Mutiny in the Harbor: One Ship Too Many. New York Times LI7

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 titleInternational Journal of Clinical Oncology
AbbreviationInt. J. Clin. Oncol.
ISSN (print)1341-9625
ISSN (online)1437-7772
ScopeGeneral Medicine
Hematology
Oncology
Surgery

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