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

Laughlin G. Astronomy. A dance of extrasolar planets. Science. 2010;330(6000):47-48.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gallouzi IE, Steitz JA. Delineation of mRNA export pathways by the use of cell-permeable peptides. Science. 2001;294(5548):1895-1901.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peirce V, Carobbio S, Vidal-Puig A. The different shades of fat. Nature. 2014;510(7503):76-83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jankowsky E, Gross CH, Shuman S, Pyle AM. Active disruption of an RNA-protein interaction by a DExH/D RNA helicase. Science. 2001;291(5501):121-125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hewitt A. Construction Claims & Responses. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Manna Z, Peled DA, eds. Time for Verification: Essays in Memory of Amir Pnueli. Vol 6200. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Antonucci E. Wind in the Solar Corona: Dynamics and Composition. In: Baker DN, Klecker B, Schwartz SJ, Schwenn R, Steiger RV, eds. Solar Dynamics and Its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth. Space Sciences Series of ISSI. Springer; 2007:35-50.

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

Hale T. Study Claims People Who Like Their Coffee Black Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Tendencies. 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. Cost Factors in CARE Act Formulas. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gada KK. Numerical Analyses of Passive and Active Flow Control over a Micro Air Vehicle with an Optimized Airfoil. 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

Perry WJ, Shultz GP. How to Build on the Start Treaty. New York Times. April 11, 2010:WK11.

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

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