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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neuro-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	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

Heilbron JL (2013) History: The path to the quantum atom. Nature 498:27–30

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang H-I, Zeng F-G (2013) Reduced acoustic and electric integration in concurrent-vowel recognition. Sci Rep 3:1419

A journal article with 3 authors

Nagornova NS, Rizzo TR, Boyarkin OV (2012) Interplay of intra- and intermolecular H-bonding in a progressively solvated macrocyclic peptide. Science 336:320–323

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Leanhardt AE, Pasquini TA, Saba M, et al (2003) Cooling Bose-Einstein condensates below 500 picokelvin. Science 301:1513–1515

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walter RJ (1998) Local Emergency Planning Committee Guidebook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Prasad SK, Routray S, Khurana R, Sahni S (2009) Information Systems, Technology and Management: Third International Conference, ICISTM 2009, Ghaziabad, India, March 12-13, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Anderson DG (2016) Pedicle-Lengthening Osteotomy for the Treatment of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. In: Manfrè L (ed) Spinal Canal Stenosis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 75–85

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 Neuro-Oncology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) These Are The Worst Stings In The World, According To A Guy Who’s Experienced Them All. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness Improving, But Much Work Remains to Avoid Major Disruptions. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hawkins JT (2017) A Private Solution to a Public Problem: Managing Hydraulic Fracturing Risks by Enhancing Private Governance through Mandatory Insurance Requirements. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

de la MERCED MJ, Corkery M (2017) Sale at Lord & Taylor: Start-Up Is Moving In. New York Times A20

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 Neuro-Oncology
Abbreviation	J. Neurooncol.
ISSN (print)	0167-594X
ISSN (online)	1573-7373
Scope	Cancer Research Clinical Neurology Oncology Neurology