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:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
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

Pudritz RE (2002) Clustered star formation and the origin of stellar masses. Science 295:68–76

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurzban R, Barrett HC (2012) Behavior. Origins of cumulative culture. Science 335:1056–1057

A journal article with 3 authors

Coussens LM, Fingleton B, Matrisian LM (2002) Matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors and cancer: trials and tribulations. Science 295:2387–2392

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen J-J, Meng J, Yu D-P, Liao Z-M (2014) Fabrication and electrical properties of stacked graphene monolayers. Sci Rep 4:5065

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes A (2013) Extractive Metallurgy 3. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Alkassar A, Volkamer M (2007) E-Voting and Identity: First International Conference, VOTE-ID 2007, Bochum, Germany, October 4-5, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Robert-McComb JJ (2008) The Female Athlete Triad: Disordered Eating, Amenorrhea, and Osteoporosis. In: Robert-McComb JJ, Norman R, Zumwalt M (eds) The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout The Lifespan. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 81–92

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 International Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Geminid Meteor Shower Will Peak Tonight, But The Supermoon Might Outshine It. In: IFLScience. 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 (2006) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Knowledge-Based Acquisition Approach Key to Addressing Program Challenges. 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

Friedlander MB (2014) Limited Sight Distance. 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

Smith B (2017) Why BuzzFeed Published the Dossier. New York Times A23

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	International Journal of Clinical Oncology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Clin. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1341-9625
ISSN (online)	1437-7772
Scope	General Medicine Hematology Oncology Surgery