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

Overbaugh J. 24/7 isn’t the only way: A healthy work-life balance can enhance research. Nature. 2011 Aug 31;477(7362):27–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heilbron JL, Bynum WF. Millennial highlights...from Gerbert d’Aurillac to Watson and Crick. Nature. 2000 Jan 6;403(6765):13–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansen LN, Zimmerman ME, Kohlstedt DL. Laboratory measurements of the viscous anisotropy of olivine aggregates. Nature. 2012 Dec 20;492(7429):415–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Setou M, Seog DH, Tanaka Y, Kanai Y, Takei Y, Kawagishi M, et al. Glutamate-receptor-interacting protein GRIP1 directly steers kinesin to dendrites. Nature. 2002 May 2;417(6884):83–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGee G. Bioethics for beginners. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

Glück R, Yokoyama T, editors. Reversible Computation: 4th International Workshop, RC 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2-3, 2012. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. X, 241 p. 70 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7581).

A chapter in an edited book

Ruß G, Kruse R, Schneider M, Wagner P. Visualization of Agriculture Data Using Self-Organizing Maps. In: Allen T, Ellis R, Petridis M, editors. Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVI: Proceedings of AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. London: Springer; 2009. p. 47–60.

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

Hamilton K. The Science Of Orgasms. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Aviation Security: Improved Testing, Evaluation, and Performance Measurement Could Enhance Effectiveness. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Nov. Report No.: GAO-16-199T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salmons I. Best Practices for Managing Burnout in Attorneys [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine 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

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

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