How to format your references using the Journal of Pancreatic Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pancreatic Cancer (PANCAN). 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

Krause RM. Obituary: Maclyn McCarty (1911-2005). Nature 2005;433(7024):372.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tegmark M, Bostrom N. Astrophysics: is a doomsday catastrophe likely? Nature 2005;438(7069):754.

A journal article with 3 authors

Galdi S, Arcuri L, Gawronski B. Automatic mental associations predict future choices of undecided decision-makers. Science 2008;321(5892):1100–1102.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tamás G, Lorincz A, Simon A, et al. Identified sources and targets of slow inhibition in the neocortex. Science 2003;299(5614):1902–1905.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wills B. Purposely Profitable. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2016.

An edited book

Gruber CW, Clark MG, Klempe SH, et al., (eds). Constraints of Agency: Explorations of Theory in Everyday Life. Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Lew Yan Voon LC, Willatzen M. Perturbation Theory – Kane Models. In: The k p Method: Electronic Properties of Semiconductors. (Lew Yan Voon LC. ed) Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2009; pp. 55–77.

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 Pancreatic Cancer.

Blog post

Fang J. Genome Of Inca Child Mummy Sequenced. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genome-500-year-old-inca-child-mummy-sequenced/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Drug Abuse: Research on Treatment May Not Address Current Needs. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cusick JA. Does Size Really Matter? How Synchrony and Size Affect the Dynamic of Aggression between Two Sympatric Species of Dolphin in the Bahamas. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, FL; 2012.

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

Kelly C. With Cliburn Gone, Competition Tries to Adjust. New York Times 2013;A23B.

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 Pancreatic Cancer
ISSN (online)	2475-3246
Scope