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

Martin SJ (2010) Cell biology. Opening the cellular poison cabinet. Science 330:1330–1331

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown ME, Schaller EL (2007) The mass of dwarf planet Eris. Science 316:1585

A journal article with 3 authors

Elsaesser H, Sauer K, Brooks DG (2009) IL-21 is required to control chronic viral infection. Science 324:1569–1572

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mimee M, Nadeau P, Hayward A, et al (2018) An ingestible bacterial-electronic system to monitor gastrointestinal health. Science 360:915–918

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hauser G (2008) Hygienegerechte Apparate Und Anlagen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Hirose A, Ozawa S, Doya K, et al (eds) (2016) Neural Information Processing: 23rd International Conference, ICONIP 2016, Kyoto, Japan, October 16–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Pradhan JP, Das K (2016) Determinants of Regional Exports. In: Das K (ed) Manufacturing Exports from Indian States: Determinants and Policy Imperatives. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 45–68

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

Hamilton K (2017) “Seeing’ Music Or “Tasting’ Numbers? Here’s What We Can Learn From People With Synaesthesia. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/seeing-music-or-tasting-numbers-heres-what-we-can-learn-from-people-with-synaesthesia/. 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 (2001) Internal Revenue Service: 2001 Tax Filing Season, Systems Modernization, and Security of Electronic Filing. 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

Ward CS (2012) Movin’ Around. 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

Allen G, Goldman P (2009) Little Restored Schoolhouse. New York Times A31

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Martin 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Brown and Schaller 2007; Martin 2010).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Schaller 2007)
Three or more authors: (Mimee et al. 2018)

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