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]

Aebersold R. Constellations in a cellular universe. Nature 2003;422:115–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zou L, Elledge SJ. Sensing DNA damage through ATRIP recognition of RPA-ssDNA complexes. Science 2003;300:1542–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bishop JR, Schuksz M, Esko JD. Heparan sulphate proteoglycans fine-tune mammalian physiology. Nature 2007;446:1030–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Barral JM, Hutagalung AH, Brinker A, Hartl FU, Epstein HF. Role of the myosin assembly protein UNC-45 as a molecular chaperone for myosin. Science 2002;295:669–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Walker C, Fincham B. Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Drexl J, Grosse Ruse-Khan H, Nadde-Phlix S, editors. EU Bilateral Trade Agreements and Intellectual Property: For Better or Worse? vol. 20. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dien NK, Hieu TT, Thinh TN. Memory-Based Multi-pattern Signature Scanning for ClamAV Antivirus. In: Dang TK, Wagner R, Neuhold E, Takizawa M, Küng J, Thoai N, editors. Future Data and Security Engineering: First International Conference, FDSE 2014, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 19-21, 2014, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 58–70.

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. Webcast Celebrates Two Years of Voyager’s Interstellar Space Travel. 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. [Comments on Referral of NASA Subcontractors’ Claims to Congress]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shackelford V. Mary’s mandala story: Images of chaos in mandala psychology. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014.

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]

Kelly S. The Canadiens; and Soul Hockey No Politics on Ice Flyers a Different Breed. New York Times 1978:SportsS2.

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

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