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

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

1. Willoughby HE. Atmosphere. Forecasting hurricane intensity and impacts. Science. 2007;315:1232–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. O’Neil DD, Gillikin DP. Do freshwater mussel shells record road-salt pollution? Sci Rep. 2014;4:7168.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ferguson NM, Donnelly CA, Anderson RM. Transmission intensity and impact of control policies on the foot and mouth epidemic in Great Britain. Nature. 2001;413:542–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cohen HY, Miller C, Bitterman KJ, Wall NR, Hekking B, Kessler B, et al. Calorie restriction promotes mammalian cell survival by inducing the SIRT1 deacetylase. Science. 2004;305:390–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Tatham M, Morton K. Developments in Speech Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Carbó Valverde S, Cuadros Solas PJ, Rodríguez Fernández F, editors. Bank Funding, Financial Instruments and Decision-Making in the Banking Industry. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jendek E, Poláková J. Catalog Agrilus – Host Plants. In: Poláková J, editor. Host Plants of World Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae): A Critical Review. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 15–401.

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 Survivorship.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. New Species Of Pterosaur Is A Near-Perfect Intermediate Form Between First And Final Species [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-pterosaur-nearperfect-intermediate-form-between-first-final-species/

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. Advanced Automation System: Implications of Problems and Recent Changes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Apr. Report No.: T-RCED-94-188.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McClimon M. A transformational approach to jazz harmony [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2016.

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. Barron J. Now Arriving on the New York Subway: Free E-Books, Timed for Your Commute. New York Times. 2016 Aug 29;A15.

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 Survivorship
Abbreviation	J. Cancer Surviv.
ISSN (print)	1932-2259
ISSN (online)	1932-2267
Scope	Oncology Oncology(nursing)