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

Ueda K (2015) PHYSICS. To catch and smash charge on the hop. Science 350:740–741

A journal article with 2 authors

Ezzati M, Riboli E (2012) Can noncommunicable diseases be prevented? Lessons from studies of populations and individuals. Science 337:1482–1487

A journal article with 3 authors

Jedema FJ, Filip AT, Van Wees BJ (2002) Spintronics (Communication arising): Spin accumulation in mesoscopic systems. Nature 416:810

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ferris P, Olson BJSC, De Hoff PL, et al (2010) Evolution of an expanded sex-determining locus in Volvox. Science 328:351–354

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shafer DA (2005) Hazardous Materials Characterization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sadeghi A-R (2013) Financial Cryptography and Data Security: 17th International Conference, FC 2013, Okinawa, Japan, April 1-5, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kanaya T, Takayama Y, Ogino Y, et al (2007) Precursor of Primary Nucleation in Isotactic Polystyrene Induced by Shear Flow. In: Reiter G, Strobl GR (eds) Progress in Understanding of Polymer Crystallization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 87–96

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

Davis J (2017) A Giant Among Dwarfs: New Species Of Dwarf Bushbaby Discovered In Angola. 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 (1988) Unmanned Vehicles: Assessment of DOD’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Master Plan. 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

Warner T (2015) California Assembly Bill 2404 Fair Play in Community Sports Act compliance procedures manual. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Vecsey G (2010) For Once, Soccer Gods Smile on Spanish. New York Times SP6

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