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

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

Reichhardt T. NASA’s new environmental satellite shows its sensitive side. Nature. 2000;404(6781):913.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schumacher MA, Funnell BE. Structures of ParB bound to DNA reveal mechanism of partition complex formation. Nature. 2005;438(7067):516-519.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith CE, Llorente B, Symington LS. Template switching during break-induced replication. Nature. 2007;447(7140):102-105.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schneider S, Walther C, Bister S, et al. Plutonium release from Fukushima Daiichi fosters the need for more detailed investigations. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2988.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carter M, Bentley SP. Soil Properties and Their Correlations. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Atasu A, ed. Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains. Vol 3. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bahadur R, Samuels WB. Wastewater Critical Infrastructure Security and Protection. In: Clark RM, Hakim S, Ostfeld A, eds. Handbook of Water and Wastewater Systems Protection. Springer; 2011:87-102.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Can Geoengineering Save The Coral Reefs? IFLScience.

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues for Consideration in Developing an Intercity Passenger Rail Policy. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Green B. Bullying of Individuals with Disabilities on a College Campus: A Qualitative Study. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2014.

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

Paulson M. Spacey Apologizes After Accusation of Misconduct. New York Times. October 30, 2017:A10.

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 Sciences
ISSN (print)	2452-3364
Scope