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

Bolnick DI (2001) Intraspecific competition favours niche width expansion in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 410:463–466

A journal article with 2 authors

Mellman I, Nussenzweig M (2011) Retrospective. Ralph M. Steinman (1943-2011). Science 334:466

A journal article with 3 authors

Parker JD, Burkepile DE, Hay ME (2006) Opposing effects of native and exotic herbivores on plant invasions. Science 311:1459–1461

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nowak JK, Grzybowska-Chlebowczyk U, Landowski P, et al (2014) Prevalence and correlates of vitamin K deficiency in children with inflammatory bowel disease. Sci Rep 4:4768

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Billingsley J (2006) Essentials of Mechatronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cavallucci D, Guio R de, Cascini G (2011) Building Innovation Pipelines through Computer-Aided Innovation: 4th IFIP WG 5.4 Working Conference, CAI 2011, Strasbourg, France, June 30 – July 1, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Miftahof RN, Nam HG (2013) Continual Model of the Detrusor. In: Nam HG (ed) Biomechanics of the Human Urinary Bladder. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 73–85

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 E (2015) Are Some Species Just Too Wild For A Happy Life In Captivity? 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 (1995) School Finance: Three States’ Experiences With Equity in School Funding. 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

Westgate M (2009) La Boutique Fantasque: A full score edition for wind band. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

St. John Kelly E (1999) Master of Her Cub Den at 82. New York Times 148

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