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

Ploegh HL. A lipid-based model for the creation of an escape hatch from the endoplasmic reticulum. Nature. 2007;448(7152):435-438.

A journal article with 2 authors

del Giorgio PA, Duarte CM. Respiration in the open ocean. Nature. 2002;420(6914):379-384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith MA, Brandt J, Shadmehr R. Motor disorder in Huntington’s disease begins as a dysfunction in error feedback control. Nature. 2000;403(6769):544-549.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ramesh P, Baroji YF, Reihani SNS, Stamou D, Oddershede LB, Bendix PM. FBAR syndapin 1 recognizes and stabilizes highly curved tubular membranes in a concentration dependent manner. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox I, Gaudard MA, Stephens ML. Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Rizvi NB. Minerals and Lipids Profiles in Cardiovascular Disorders in South Asia: Cu, Mg, Se, Zn and Lipid Serum Profiles for the Example of Patients in Pakistan. (Nagra SA, ed.). Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Tornyai R, Kertesz A. Towards Autonomous Data Sharing Across Personal Clouds. In: Lopes L, Žilinskas J, Costan A, et al., eds. Euro-Par 2014: Parallel Processing Workshops: Euro-Par 2014 International Workshops, Porto, Portugal, August 25-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2014:50-61.

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

Carpineti A. This Ridiculously Accurate Clock Could Fit Inside Your Smartphone. IFLScience. May 12, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/high-precision-clock-could-soon-fit-inside-smartphone/

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. Slot-Controlled Airports: FAA’s Rules Could Be Improved to Enhance Competition and Use of Available Capacity. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bravo M. The Development of a Viable Business Plan: Analytics of 30 Day Readmission Rates for Hospitals and Ancillary Services. 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

Sisario B. Pentatonix Album Tops Billboard’s Chart Again. New York Times. January 3, 2017:C2.

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