How to format your references using the Journal of Chemotherapy citation style

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

Fratzl P. Applied physics: The virtues of tiling. Nature. 2014 Dec 11;516(7530):178–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hyde JS, Linn MC. Diversity. Gender similarities in mathematics and science. Science. 2006 Oct 27;314(5799):599–600.

A journal article with 3 authors

Collins SH, Wiggin MB, Sawicki GS. Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton. Nature. 2015 Jun 11;522(7555):212–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Volkman HE, Pozos TC, Zheng J, Davis JM, Rawls JF, Ramakrishnan L. Tuberculous granuloma induction via interaction of a bacterial secreted protein with host epithelium. Science. 2010 Jan 22;327(5964):466–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton D. Trump University Marketing 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Sakawa M. Fuzzy Stochastic Multiobjective Programming. Nishizaki I, Katagiri H, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. XII, 264 p. (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science; vol. 159).

A chapter in an edited book

Ghizzardi S, Molendi S, Rossetti M, Leccardi A. Cold Fronts in Cool Core Clusters. In: Böhringer H, Pratt GW, Finoguenov A, Schuecker P, editors. Heating versus Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference held in Garching, Germany, 6-11 August 2006. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 33–8. (Eso Astrophysics Symposia).

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 Chemotherapy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Striking Madagascan Chameleon May Actually Be 11 Different Species [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/striking-madagascan-chameleon-may-actually-be-11-different-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

Government Accountability Office. GAO Rolodex Cards. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Apr. Report No.: 148869.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dhah S. The relationship between job-embedded professional development and special education teacher self-efficacy in hard-to-staff middle schools [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2015.

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

Saslow L. Sorting Out their Goals, and Options. New York Times. 2009 Apr 12;WE7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Chemotherapy
Abbreviation	J. Chemother.
ISSN (print)	1120-009X
ISSN (online)	1973-9478
Scope	Infectious Diseases Oncology Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology