How to format your references using the Lung Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Lung Cancer. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

K. Powell, Back to basics: from industry to academia, Nature 430 (2004) 706–707.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Roy, A. Asenov, Applied physics. Where do the dopants go?, Science 309 (2005) 388–390.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Han, H. Ding, F. Lv, Demonstration of a refractometric sensor based on an optical micro-fiber three-beam interferometer, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7504.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.-Y. Yen, K.K. Hoi, I. Liko, G. Hedger, M.R. Horrell, W. Song, D. Wu, P. Heine, T. Warne, Y. Lee, B. Carpenter, A. Plückthun, C.G. Tate, M.S.P. Sansom, C.V. Robinson, PtdIns(4,5)P2 stabilizes active states of GPCRs and enhances selectivity of G-protein coupling, Nature 559 (2018) 423–427.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Duchon, R. Hale, Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

D. Passey, A. Breiter, A. Visscher, eds., Next Generation of Information Technology in Educational Management: 10th IFIP WG 3.7 Conference, ITEM 2012, Bremen, Germany, August 5-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Deng, Z. Chen, J. Knisely, R. Decker, V. Chiang, R. Nath, Monte Carlo Investigation of Stereotactic Radiosurgery of Spinal Metastases, in: O. Dössel, W.C. Schlegel (Eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/1 Radiation Oncology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 13–16.

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 Lung Cancer.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, SpaceX Unveils Its Stylish Crew Dragon Spacecraft That Will Take Astronauts To Space, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-unveils-its-stylish-crew-dragon-spacecraft-will-take-astronauts-space/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Job Training: Effect of Under-Reported Unemployment Data on Grant Funding to Rural Areas, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.M. Dorrance, The Role of the Partial Tandem Duplication of MLL (MLL PTD) in Leukemogenesis, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008.

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

[1]

J. Poniewozik, Rich, and a Jerk, but Then, Wait for It . . , New York Times (2017) C7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Lung Cancer
Abbreviation	Lung Cancer
ISSN (print)	0169-5002
Scope	Cancer Research Oncology Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine