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]

Forbes P. Poetry and science: greatness in little. Nature 2005;434:320–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lin JY, Fisher DE. Melanocyte biology and skin pigmentation. Nature 2007;445:843–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Meyer P, Saez L, Young MW. PER-TIM interactions in living Drosophila cells: an interval timer for the circadian clock. Science 2006;311:226–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Antson AA, Burns JE, Moroz OV, Scott DJ, Sanders CM, Bronstein IB, et al. Structure of the intact transactivation domain of the human papillomavirus E2 protein. Nature 2000;403:805–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bisswanger H. Enzymkinetik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Kennedy M, Billett S, Gherardi S, Grealish L, editors. Practice-based Learning in Higher Education: Jostling Cultures. vol. 10. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Razavi SH, Ebadati EOM, Asadi S, Kaur H. An Efficient Grouping Genetic Algorithm for Data Clustering and Big Data Analysis. In: Acharjya DP, Dehuri S, Sanyal S, editors. Computational Intelligence for Big Data Analysis: Frontier Advances and Applications, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 119–42.

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]

Hale T. Students Create 3D-Printed Wheelchair For Disabled Kitten. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/students-create-3d-printed-wheelchair-disabled-kitten/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. International Aviation: Competition Issues in the U.S.-U.K. Market. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lu Y-C. From confrontation to accommodation: China’s policy toward the U.S. in the post-Cold War era. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2009.

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]

Shear MD. In Era of Vitriol, Somber Duty Skids Into Spectacle. New York Times 2017:A29.

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