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

Goldston D. Innovation strategy. Nature. 2009 Oct 1;461(7264):585.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burtsev M, Turchin P. Evolution of cooperative strategies from first principles. Nature. 2006 Apr 20;440(7087):1041–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhandary S, Eriksson O, Sanyal B. Defect controlled magnetism in FeP/graphene/Ni(111). Sci Rep. 2013 Dec 3;3:3405.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

He Y, Nagashima K, Kanai M, Meng G, Zhuge F, Rahong S, et al. Nanoscale size-selective deposition of nanowires by micrometer scale hydrophilic patterns. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug 4;4:5943.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stocker AA. Analog VLSI Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

McGeoch CC, editor. Experimental Algorithms: 7th International Workshop, WEA 2008 Provincetown, MA, USA, May 30-June 1, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. X, 363 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5038).

A chapter in an edited book

Kalyebara B, Islam SMN. Discounted Cash Flow for Tom.com. In: Islam SMN, editor. Corporate Governance, Capital Markets, and Capital Budgeting: An Integrated Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 75–106. (Contributions to Management 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 Chemotherapy.

Blog post

Luntz S. First North American Measles Death Since 2003 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-north-american-measles-death-2003/

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. Funding Information on the State Student Incentive Grant Program and Other Need-Based Student Aid Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Dec. Report No.: HRD-84-19.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Becker M. Women’s Descriptions Six Months Post Notification of Positive BRCA 1/2 Genetic Mutations [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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

Powell M. Principles and Posturing. New York Times. 2017 Aug 3;B9.

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