How to format your references using the Journal of Geriatric Oncology citation style

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

Vargas-Parada L. Pathology: Three questions. Nature 2012;488:S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nodine MD, Bartel DP. Maternal and paternal genomes contribute equally to the transcriptome of early plant embryos. Nature 2012;482:94–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pinker RT, Zhang B, Dutton EG. Do satellites detect trends in surface solar radiation? Science 2005;308:850–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Christiaen L, Davidson B, Kawashima T, Powell W, Nolla H, Vranizan K, et al. The transcription/migration interface in heart precursors of Ciona intestinalis. Science 2008;320:1349–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Robbins NB. Creating More Effective Graphs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Theron LC, Liebenberg L, Ungar M, editors. Youth Resilience and Culture: Commonalities and Complexities. vol. 11. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Blum A. A Theory of Similarity Functions for Learning and Clustering. In: Corruble V, Takeda M, Suzuki E, editors. Discovery Science: 10th International Conference, DS 2007 Sendai, Japan, October 1-4, 2007. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 39–39.

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 Geriatric Oncology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. 3D Vaccine Self-Assembles To Fight Cancer and Infectious Disease. IFLScience 2015.

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. Highway Safety: Monitoring Practices To Show Compliance With Speed Limits Should Be Reexamined. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gamez TE. Preventing child maltreatment among children with non-resident fathers: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Vecsey G. Super Bowl Champion Jets Ignited A Sporting Revival in the Big Town. New York Times 2010:SP3.

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 Geriatric Oncology
ISSN (print)	1879-4068
Scope