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

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

Watson A: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY: Getting More Out of Space. Science 290: 1287b, 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farley KA and Mukhopadhyay S: An extraterrestrial impact at the Permian-Triassic boundary? Science 293: 2343, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön JH, Kloc C and Batlogg B: Fractional quantum Hall effect in organic molecular semiconductors. Science 288: 2338–2340, 2000.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Trompouki E, Hatzivassiliou E, Tsichritzis T, Farmer H, Ashworth A and Mosialos G: CYLD is a deubiquitinating enzyme that negatively regulates NF-kappaB activation by TNFR family members. Nature 424: 793–796, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sedlacek HH, Sapienza AM and Eid V: Ways to Successful Strategies in Drug Research and Development. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008.

An edited book

Hoppe HU, Ogata H and Soller A: The Role of Technology in CSCL: Studies in Technology Enhanced Collaborative Learning. Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Miglani M, Kukreja D, Dhurandher SK and Reddy BVR: Power Aware and Secure Dynamic Source Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In: Security in Computing and Communications: Second International Symposium, SSCC 2014, Delhi, India, September 24-27, 2014. Proceedings. Mauri JL, Thampi SM, Rawat DB and Jin D (eds.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp45–56, 2014.

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 Oncology.

Blog post

Hale T: Nearly 100 Dolphins Mysteriously Stranded Off Coast Of Florida. IFLScience, 2017.

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: Statistics on Congressional Reporting Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Luna AC: Analysis of the California Mental Health Services Act., 2009.

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: Here’s the Kicker: He Was Suddenly A Punter, Too. New York Times: SP3, 2010.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Oncology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	1019-6439
ISSN (online)	1791-2423
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology

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