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

Meyerowitz EM (2002) Plants compared to animals: the broadest comparative study of development. Science 295:1482–1485

A journal article with 2 authors

Doak DF, Morris WF (2010) Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts. Nature 467:959–962

A journal article with 3 authors

Ruefli-Brasse AA, French DM, Dixit VM (2003) Regulation of NF-kappaB-dependent lymphocyte activation and development by paracaspase. Science 302:1581–1584

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wohlgenannt M, Tandon K, Mazumdar S, et al (2001) Formation cross-sections of singlet and triplet excitons in pi-conjugated polymers. Nature 409:494–497

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaffney S, Francis C (2009) Honesty Sells. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Oliveira LC de, Silva T (2016) Second Language Writing in Elementary Classrooms: Instructional Issues, Content-area Writing and Teacher Education. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Escalera S, Baró X, Pujol O, et al (2011) Traffic Sign Categorization. In: Baró X, Pujol O, Vitrià J, Radeva P (eds) Traffic-Sign Recognition Systems. Springer, London, pp 53–80

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) Unlike A Rolling Stone: Is Science Really Better Than Journalism At Self-Correction? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/unlike-rolling-stone-science-really-better-journalism-self-correction/. 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 (2004) Telecommunications: Intelsat Privatization and the Implementation of the ORBIT Act. 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

King GD (2010) Public Works Directors’ Perceptions of the Effects of Stakeholders on Environmental Policies in California Cities. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Kishkovsky S (2005) Moscow Theater Hit Again by Fire. New York Times B10

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

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