How to format your references using the Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology citation style

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

Yamaguchi A (2001) Sex differences in vocal learning in birds. Nature 411:257–258

A journal article with 2 authors

Coffelt SB, de Visser KE (2014) Cancer: Inflammation lights the way to metastasis. Nature 507:48–49

A journal article with 3 authors

Brandes M, Willimann K, Moser B (2005) Professional antigen-presentation function by human gammadelta T Cells. Science 309:264–268

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu FS, Zheng JX, Huang MJ, et al (2014) Enhanced thermoelectric performance of Cu2CdSnSe4 by Mn doping: experimental and first principles studies. Sci Rep 4:5774

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Misstear B, Banks D, Clark L (2017) Water Wells and Boreholes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

García CR, Caballero-Gil P, Burmester M, Quesada-Arencibia A (eds) (2016) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: 10th International Conference, UCAmI 2016, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, Spain, November 29 – December 2, 2016, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Figueiredo M, Goes J, Evans G (2013) Application of Circuit Enhancement Techniques to ADC Building Blocks. In: Goes J, Evans G (eds) Reference-Free CMOS Pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converters. Springer, New York, NY, pp 73–115

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 Research and Clinical Oncology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) How To Grow Your Own Bismuth Crystals. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/grow-your-own-bismuth-crystals/. 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) Small Business Innovation Research: Information on Awards Made by NIH and DoD in Fiscal Years 2001 through 2004. 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

Fuller JB (2015) The Woodsman’s Son. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Dominus S (2013) After The Dark, The ‘Dream.’ New York Times AR1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Yamaguchi 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Yamaguchi 2001; Coffelt and de Visser 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Coffelt and de Visser 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
Abbreviation	J. Cancer Res. Clin. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	0171-5216
ISSN (online)	1432-1335
Scope	Cancer Research General Medicine Oncology