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

Beaudet AL. Which way for genetic-test regulation? Leave test interpretation to specialists. Nature. 2010 Aug 12;466(7308):816–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bongaarts J, Sinding S. Population policy in transition in the developing world. Science. 2011 Jul 29;333(6042):574–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brockmann D, Hufnagel L, Geisel T. The scaling laws of human travel. Nature. 2006 Jan 26;439(7075):462–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mizuno D, Tardin C, Schmidt CF, Mackintosh FC. Nonequilibrium mechanics of active cytoskeletal networks. Science. 2007 Jan 19;315(5810):370–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoskins BJ, James IN. Fluid Dynamics of the Midlatitude Atmosphere. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

van de Kelft E, editor. Surgery of the Spine and Spinal Cord: A Neurosurgical Approach. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XV, 761 p. 473 illus., 320 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Fernandez C. Treatment of Wilms Tumor in the Children’s Oncology Group. In: Pritchard-Jones K, Dome JS, editors. Renal Tumors of Childhood: Biology and Therapy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 77–99. (Pediatric Oncology).

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

Hale T. The Physics Of Totally And Utterly Destroying The Universe [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/the-physics-of-totally-and-utterly-destroying-the-universe/

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. Transportation Infrastructure: A Comparison of Federal and State Highway Laws. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jun. Report No.: RCED-90-157.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Darwich MK. Cost-Efficient Video On Demand (VOD) Streaming Using Cloud Services [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

Kanter J. European Leaders Debate Proposals for Closer Military Ties. New York Times. 2016 Sep 16;A6.

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