How to format your references using the Journal of Oncological Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Oncological Science. 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

Basnyat B. Tackle Nepal’s typhoid problem now. Nature. 2015;524(7565):267.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scaffidi P, Misteli T. Lamin A-dependent nuclear defects in human aging. Science. 2006;312(5776):1059-1063.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tran J, Brenner TJ, DiNardo S. Somatic control over the germline stem cell lineage during Drosophila spermatogenesis. Nature. 2000;407(6805):754-757.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Johnson RE, Washington MT, Haracska L, Prakash S, Prakash L. Eukaryotic polymerases iota and zeta act sequentially to bypass DNA lesions. Nature. 2000;406(6799):1015-1019.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Patterson SJ, Radtke JM. Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Hinduja S, Fan KC, eds. Proceedings of the 35th International MATADOR Conference: Formerly The International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference. Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Lim YAL, Mahdy MAK, Surin J. Unravelling Cryptosporidium and Giardia in Southeast Asia. In: Lim YAL, Vythilingam I, eds. Parasites and Their Vectors: A Special Focus on Southeast Asia. Springer; 2013:77-102.

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 Oncological Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Discovery Could Help Mend Broken Hearts. IFLScience. October 19, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-discovery-could-help-mend-broken-hearts/

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. Comments on “The Government Can Be More Productive in Collecting Its Debts by Following Commercial Practices.” U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yi M. Interrater Reliability between Novice and Expert Functional Movement Screen Raters. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Fans Voice Frustration, But Mets Leave It Behind. New York Times. April 6, 2010:B15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Oncological Science
ISSN (print)	2452-3364
Scope