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]

J. Mervis, Department of Energy. Nominee scores cabinet hat trick, Science 306 (2004) 2018.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Goedert, Y. Cheng, Parkinson’s disease: Crystals of a toxic core, Nature 525 (2015) 458–459.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Pozzi, T. Di Matteo, T. Aste, Spread of risk across financial markets: better to invest in the peripheries, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1665.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Mashiko, Y. Fujihara, Y. Satouh, H. Miyata, A. Isotani, M. Ikawa, Generation of mutant mice by pronuclear injection of circular plasmid expressing Cas9 and single guided RNA, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3355.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.K. Ng, Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

J. Benaloh, ed., Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2014: The Cryptographer’s Track at the RSA Conference 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 25-28, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Gollwitzer, J.-W. van Prooijen, Psychology of Justice, in: C. Sabbagh, M. Schmitt (Eds.), Handbook of Social Justice Theory and Research, Springer, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 61–82.

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]

E. Andrew, Ancient Nova Is Now Thought To Be A Stellar Collision, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-nova-now-thought-be-stellar-collision/ (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, Issues Related to FAA’s Effectiveness, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.J. Miramontes, Examining eye fixation patterns during the Situation Present Assessment Method (SPAM) under varying levels of workload, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

C. Homans, A Soap Opera on the High Seas, New York Times (2012) MM26.

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