How to format your references using the Journal of Cancer Policy citation style

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

[1]

D.L. Stocum, Development. A tail of transdifferentiation, Science 298 (2002) 1901–1903.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.F. Alcorn, J.K. Kolls, Physiology. Killer fat, Science 347 (2015) 26–27.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.B. Palter, M.S. Lozier, R.T. Barber, The effect of advection on the nutrient reservoir in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre, Nature 437 (2005) 687–692.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Wollmann, S. Cui, R. Viswanathan, O. Berninghausen, M.N. Wells, M. Moldt, G. Witte, A. Butryn, P. Wendler, R. Beckmann, D.T. Auble, K.-P. Hopfner, Structure and mechanism of the Swi2/Snf2 remodeller Mot1 in complex with its substrate TBP, Nature 475 (2011) 403–407.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Heywood, Engineering Education, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

M.M. Gulizia, ed., Current News in Cardiology: Proceedings of the Mediterranean Cardiology Meeting (Taormina, May 20–22, 2007), Springer, Milano, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Lomet, Transactions: From Local Atomicity to Atomicity in the Cloud, in: C.B. Jones, J.L. Lloyd (Eds.), Dependable and Historic Computing: Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 38–52.

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 Journal of Cancer Policy.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Human Quadrupeds Are Not Examples of Devolution, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-quadrupeds-are-not-examples-devolution/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Maintaining Effective Control Over Employee Time and Attendance Reporting, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.K. Burchman, A dialogue on improvisation, space and melody: Larry Koonse’s approach to improvisation, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

[1]

J.B. Stewart, Wells Fargo Case Tests a Get-Tough Approach, New York Times (2016) B1.

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	Journal of Cancer Policy
Abbreviation	J. Cancer Policy
ISSN (print)	2213-5383
Scope