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

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

Benford G. Where might it lead? Nature. 2001 Nov 22;414(6862):399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ho L, Crabtree GR. Chromatin remodelling during development. Nature. 2010 Jan 28;463(7280):474–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohbayashi M, Ohki K, Miyashita Y. Conversion of working memory to motor sequence in the monkey premotor cortex. Science. 2003 Jul 11;301(5630):233–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Buckling A, Kassen R, Bell G, Rainey PB. Disturbance and diversity in experimental microcosms. Nature. 2000;408(6815):961–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibrahim D. Microcontroller Based Applied Digital Control. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Pfenning F, editor. Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 16th International Conference, FOSSACS 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. XXIV, 451 p. 51 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7794).

A chapter in an edited book

Tang Y, Parsons S, Sklar E. Modeling Human Education Data: From Equation-Based Modeling to Agent-Based Modeling. In: Antunes L, Takadama K, editors. Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VII: International Workshop, MABS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 41–56. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Therapeutics.

Blog post

Fang J. Crayfish Grow New Brain Cells From Blood Cells [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crayfish-grow-new-brain-cells-blood-cells/

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. Survey of the DOL Activities With Regard to Assistance Furnished to Non-Reservation Indians. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Jul. Report No.: 089737.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Himschoot AR. Student perception of relevance of biology content to everyday life: A study in higher education biology courses [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2012.

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. College Athletes Move Concussions Into the Courtroom. New York Times. 2011 Nov 30;B14.

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 Research and Therapeutics
Abbreviation	J. Cancer Res. Ther.
ISSN (print)	0973-1482
ISSN (online)	1998-4138
Scope	General Medicine Oncology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging