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

O’Neill LAJ. Plant science. Innate immunity in plants goes to the PUB. Science. 2011;332(6036):1386-1387.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ye B, Cramer N. Chiral cyclopentadienyl ligands as stereocontrolling element in asymmetric C-H functionalization. Science. 2012;338(6106):504-506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alston JM, Beddow JM, Pardey PG. Agriculture. Agricultural research, productivity, and food prices in the long run. Science. 2009;325(5945):1209-1210.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jeon S, Jang JY, Youn JR, Jeong JH, Brenner H, Song YS. Fullerene embedded shape memory nanolens array. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller MA. Internet Technologies Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Vassiliou V, Chow E, Kardamakis D, eds. Bone Metastases: A Translational and Clinical Approach. Vol 21. 2nd ed. 2014. Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

McMillan DB. Events Associated with Fertilization. In: McMillan DB, ed. Fish Histology: Female Reproductive Systems. Springer Netherlands; 2007:285-333.

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. Are Creative People More Prone To Psychological Distress Or Is The ‘Mad Genius’ A Myth? IFLScience. August 28, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-creative-people-more-prone-psychological-distress-or-mad-genius-myth/

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. Amtrak: Information on Amtrak’s Operating Expenses. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Crivello A. DNA Methylation of the Interferon-Gamma Promoter in Association with Overexpression of the Interferon-Gamma Gene in Periodontal Disease. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina; 2009.

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

Gustines GG. Neil Young’s Greendale, Illustrated. New York Times. June 16, 2010:C1.

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